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Gasoline was rationed during the 1970s oil embargo.rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
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Military rations are nutritionally balanced.rations = fixed portions of food
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During the Second World War, products such as food and gasoline were rationed in the United States, so more resources could be devoted to the war effort.rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
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Bread was rationed during the siege of the city.rationed = restricted in the amount people could have
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Most rationing is done through price, but that doesn't work very well in emergency health care.rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have when more is wanted than is available
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When it comes to me, you'd rather smoke a whole ration, wouldn't you? (source)ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
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It's real bakery bread, not the flat, dense loaves we make from our grain rations. (source)rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted
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Because the water ration was now divided by two instead of three, each man had more to drink. (source)ration = available for consumption
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It ran infrequently, and if we missed it we had to stand around for a while waiting for the next bus, but among its stops was a shopping plaza with a chilly, gleaming, understaffed supermarket where Boris stole steaks for us, butter, boxes of tea, cucumbers (a great delicacy for him), packages of bacon —even cough syrup once, when I had a cold — slipping them in the cutaway lining of his ugly gray raincoat (a man's coat, much too big for him, with drooping shoulders and a grim Eastern Bloc look about it, a suggestion of food rationing and Soviet-era factories, industrial complexes in Lviv or Odessa).† (source)rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
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Randy had carefully rationed salt since he was shocked, in July, to discover how few pounds were left. (source)rationed = restricted the amount used of something
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In the evenings she cooks for him, hoping to please, with the unrationed, remarkably unblemished sugar, flour, rice, and salt she had written about to her mother in her very first letter home.† (source)unrationed = not restricted in the amount availablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrationed means not and reverses the meaning of rationed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Don't you want them to know you can get extra rations? (source)rations = portions of food
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We also purchase ration books on the black market. (source)ration = (containing coupons good for) a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
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When a letter from home told me that a trip to visit relatives had been canceled because of gas rationing it was easy to visualize my father smiling silently with knowing eyes—at least as easy as it was to imagine an American force crawling through the jungles of a place called Guadalcanal—"Wherever that is," as Phineas said.† (source)rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
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Gasoline was rationed, of course, though less so for people like Richard.† (source)rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
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Henry Dobbins, who was a big man, carried extra rations; he was especially fond of canned peaches in heavy syrup over pound cake. (source)rations = fixed portions of food
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