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/ˈɹæʃən, ˈɹeɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɹˈæʃən/ ]
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VERB
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restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
Bread was rationed during the siege of the city -
distribute in rations, as in the army
Cigarettes are rationed
NOUN
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the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)
the rations should be nutritionally balanced - 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.