All 19 Uses
ration
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl - Definitive Edition
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- Bep and Miep went grocery shopping with our ration coupons, Father worked on our blackout screens, we scrubbed the kitchen floor, and were once again busy from sunup to sundown.
p. 29.7ration = good for a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- We also purchase ration books on the black market.
p. 68.7ration = (containing coupons good for) a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- We've been using too much electricity and have now exceeded our ration.
p. 78.6 *ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- According to the newspaper, everyone is entitled to half a pound, but they mean those lucky souls who get their ration books from the government, not Jews in hiding like us who can only afford to buy four rather than eight ration books on the black market.
p. 85.6ration = (containing coupons that permit getting) a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- According to the newspaper, everyone is entitled to half a pound, but they mean those lucky souls who get their ration books from the government, not Jews in hiding like us who can only afford to buy four rather than eight ration books on the black market.
p. 85.7
- The van Daans have been sleeping all winter long on the same flannel sheet, which can't be washed because detergent is rationed and in short supply.
p. 108.9rationed = restricted in the amount people can have
- Like everything else you can purchase without ration stamps, they're totally worthless.†
p. 122.2
- Other than one ration stamp each for cheese, meat and bread, all she received from us was a jar of jam.
p. 147.1ration = (good for) a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- In order for the many people in hiding to get their rations (you have to show this card to obtain your ration book or else pay 60 guilders a book), the registrar asked all those hiding in that district to pick up their cards at a specified hour, when the documents could be collected at a separate table.
p. 193.8rations = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- In order for the many people in hiding to get their rations (you have to show this card to obtain your ration book or else pay 60 guilders a book), the registrar asked all those hiding in that district to pick up their cards at a specified hour, when the documents could be collected at a separate table.
p. 193.8ration = (containing coupons that permit getting) a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- The people who supply us with food coupons have been arrested, so we have just our five black-market ration books-no coupons, no fats and oils.
p. 233.5ration = (that permit getting) a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- Better set aside some of my rations for Bep.
p. 235.5rations = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- Everyone's hungry; except for the ersatz coffee, a week's food ration doesn't last two days.
p. 264.9
- The ration board, the police, the officials-they're all either helping their fellow citizens or denouncing them and sending them off to prison.
p. 265.3ration = (responsible for) restricting the amount of goods people can have due to a shortage
- This month we received eight ration books.†
p. 286.7
- All Dutch people will be issued new ration registration cards.
p. 287.1ration = (related to) restricting the amount of goods people can have due to a shortage
- The delivery boy from the bakery has supplied us with darning thread-90 cents for one measly skein-the milkman can get hold of ration books, an undertaker delivers cheese.
p. 306.6ration = (containing coupons that permit getting) a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- Dutch historians have put forward a theory that Silberbauer went to the house in Prinsengracht only to investigate forged ration cards.†
p. 365.9
- In March 1944, Anne twice mentioned the arrest of their "food coupon suppliers," two men who dealt in illegal ration cards.†
p. 366.1
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)