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- Mama used it too, sometimes, for cooking, because electricity was rationed now.†
p. 18.9 *rationed = restricted in the amount each person could have
- It was so long a time since they had dared to use the strictly rationed electricity after dark that the light in the room seemed startling to Annemarie, watching through the slightly opened bedroom door.†
p. 43.5
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)