ration
1. the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel) (Freq. 7)
- the rations should be nutritionally balanced
• Hypernyms:
fare
• Hyponyms:
field ration
2. a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
share, portion, part, percentage
1. restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
- Bread was rationed during the siege of the city
• Derivationally related forms:
rationing
• Hypernyms:
limit, circumscribe, confine
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. distribute in rations, as in the army
- Cigarettes are rationed
• Syn:
ration out
• Hypernyms:
allocate, apportion
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
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