All 12 Uses
ration
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
p. 26.2ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a 'categorical pledge' were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984.
p. 39.4
- Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week.
p. 39.4
- All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April.
p. 39.6
- With the tobacco ration at 100 grammes a week it was seldom possible to fill a pipe to the top.
p. 58.5
- The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left.
p. 58.6
- It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week.
p. 58.7
- And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week.
p. 58.8
- The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes.
p. 58.9
- All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.
p. 71.8 *rations = fixed portions of something allotted to people to limit how much each can consume
- One day a chocolate-ration was issued.
p. 162.6ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card.
p. 267.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(ration) a fixed share of something, especially scarce goods like food or fuel; or to limit and distribute something in fixed shares
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)