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1. Distributed equitably in limited individual portions
   "got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar"

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, rationing

Type of: allocate, apportion, circumscribe, confine, limit

Encyclopedia: Ration