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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
or:
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
- It's real bakery bread, not the flat, dense loaves we make from our grain rations.p. 7.4
- I don't recognize the grain, our own tessera ration cooks down to an unattractive brown mush.p. 65.4
- And I come to know Rue, the oldest of six kids, fiercely protective of her siblings, who gives her rations to the younger ones, who forages in the meadows in a district where the Peacekeepers are far less obliging than ours.p. 211.7
- It's made of dark ration grain and shaped in a crescent.p. 238.9
- Should we try and ration it?p. 294.9
There are no more uses of "ration" in The Hunger Games.
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