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Adjective: rationed  ra-shund
  1. Distributed equitably in limited individual portions
    "got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar"
Verb: ration  ra-shun
  1. Restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
    "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city"
     
  2. Distribute in rations, as in the army
    "Cigarettes are rationed";
    - ration out

See also: distributed

Type of: allocate, apportion, curb, curtail, cut back, restrict

Encyclopedia: Rationed

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