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Noun: rationing  rashuning
  1. The act of rationing
    "during the war the government imposed rationing of food and petrol"
Verb: ration  rashun
  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

Derived forms: rationings

Type of: allocate, allocation, allotment, apportion, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, circumscribe, confine, limit, parceling [US], parcelling

Encyclopedia: Ration

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