All 13 Uses of
ration
in
Alas, Babylon
- If the worst happened, this would be their iron rations for a desperate time.†
Chpt 3rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- Lieutenant Peyton's log and a half-dozen baby books—all family memorabilia judged not valuable enough to warrant space in a safe deposit vault but too valuable to throw away—and made space for the iron rations at the bottom.†
Chpt 3
- Lavinia said, "If it came I suppose we'd have rationing like last time and all kinds of shortages.†
Chpt 4rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
- Those people in Fort Repose who remembered rationing from the second World War also remembered what goods had been in short supply, back in 'forty-two and 'forty-three, and bought accordingly.†
Chpt 5
- Some proprietors, realizing that these items were vanishing, instituted their own rationing systems.†
Chpt 5
- You remember how it was last time, with those silly A and B ration cards.†
Chpt 5ration = a fixed portion of something given as a person's share when there is a shortage
- So, what strength was left in the batteries he carefully rationed.†
Chpt 9rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
- He shouted, "The iron rations!" and ran into his office.†
Chpt 9rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
- In the kitchen he had collected a few nourishing odds and ends, tinned or sealed, and dubbed them iron rations, for a desperate time.†
Chpt 9
- Don't you remember putting a jar of coffee in what you called your iron rations?†
Chpt 10
- Of all things, she had been reading the log of Lieutenant Randolph Rowzee Peyton, heaved up from the teak sea chest during last night's burrowing for iron rations.†
Chpt 10
- Randy had carefully rationed salt since he was shocked, in July, to discover how few pounds were left.
Chpt 12 *rationed = restricted the amount used of something
- Captain Bayliss kept mumbling that he felt they were imposing, and that there were K-rations in the helicopter and that he actually expected to find C.Z. people all starving, because certainly most of them were in other parts of the country.†
Chpt 13rations = fixed portions of something that is allotted -- especially food for military personnel
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
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
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