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ration
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Prisoner B-3087
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We have ration cards now for food.†
p. 10.1
It's the rationing.†
p. 11.9

rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
I wished my father were there with us, but he had gone out to stand in line for our vegetable rations.
p. 27.8

rations = fixed portions of food given regularly
At this time of day, she would usually be in the kitchen, preparing whatever rations we had for lunch, but that was no use now.†
p. 31.5
I took my mother's place in line for our rations, and sometimes my father and I were pulled off the street to work outside the ghetto.†
p. 37.3
I would have traded a week's worth of rations just to have another pot of my mother's delicious tomato soup.†
p. 38.6
If I had gone straight home, if I had gone out to get our rations with my mother and father, things might have turned out very differently than they did.
p. 56.5 *

rations = fixed amounts of food given regularly
After a man on my work detail was killed for moving too slowly, Uncle Moshe traded his daily rations to a kapo to get me assigned to a new job outside the camp.†
p. 73.9

Definitions:

(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)