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Definition
verb: to restrict the amount of something each person can have — such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage, or when more is wanted than is available
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noun: a fixed portion of something that is given as a person's share — such as goods of which there is a shortage, or food for soldiers in the field
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noun: a fixed portion of something that is given as a person's share — such as goods of which there is a shortage, or food for soldiers in the field
- ...don't give your ration of bread and soup to your old father. There's nothing you can do for him. And you're killing yourself.Eight (77% in)
ration = a fixed portion of food given as a share
- My father swallowed my ration.Three (76% in)
- I was dreadfully hungry and swallowed my ration on the spot.Three (86% in)
- Tomorrow's another day...." And seeing that his advice had come too late and that there was nothing left of my ration, be did not even begin his own.Three (87% in)
- Stein, our relation from Antwerp, continued to visit us and from time to time he would bring a half ration of bread.Three (90% in)
- At ten o'clock we were given our daily ration of bread.Three (97% in)
- I'll give you an extra ration of bread and margarine.Four (7% in)
- Hey, general, how many rations of bread does the old boy give you for this?Four (48% in)
- And became you've made me wait, that's going to cost you a ration of bread.Four (49% in)
- A ration of bread for one of my pals a famous dentist from Warsaw, so that he can take your crown out.Four (50% in)
- My ration of bread so that you can have my crown?Four (50% in)
- Poor hero, committing suicide for a ration of soup!Four (69% in)
- My father had brought me a present-half a ration of bread obtained in exchange for a piece of rubber, found at the warehouse, which would do to sole a shoe.Five (39% in)
- Rations had become more meager: this was the only change.Five (41% in)
- We had received the black coffee, the ration of bread.Five (41% in)
- The head of the block gave out double rations of bread and margarine, For the journey.Five (90% in)
- Always near each other, for suffering, for blows, for the ration of bread, for prayer, three years, from camp to camp, from selection to selection.Six (50% in)
- And who knew when we would be given another ration?Six (90% in)
- They brought us bread-the usual ration.Six (97% in)
- For a ration of bread, I managed to change beds with a prisoner in my father's bunk.Eight (52% in)
- The following day he complained that they had taken his ration of bread.Eight (69% in)
- Instead, you ought to be having his ration.Eight (79% in)
- You ought to be having two rations of bread, two rations of soup.Eight (80% in)
- You ought to be having two rations of bread, two rations of soup.Eight (81% in)
- From time to time I would dream of a drop of soup, of an extra ration of soup.Nine (5% in)
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