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[ US /ˈɹæʃən, ˈɹeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈæʃən/ ]
VERB
  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
NOUN
  1. the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)
    the rations should be nutritionally balanced
  2. a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)

How To Use ration In A Sentence

  • When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
  • You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
  • Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
  • My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
  • Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
  • Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
  • Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
  • As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
  • A substantial element of the system is the set of physical exercises performed in pairs and again based on the idea of the power of co-operation.
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