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- No, we still need to share duties for guarding the apartment, for water and cleaning, but for food we're going to need to begin rationing what we have here.†
p. 181.2rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
- "Each person gets one of these rations," said Chuck, pointing again to the pile on the table, "and then you're responsible for how slowly or quickly you decide to eat.†
p. 181.4
- In a huff, he retreated to his place, and his group of people went with him Rory reached down to grab four packs of rations while looking at Chuck.†
p. 181.7
- The Red Cross was allotting one food pack per person in line, about a day's supply of calories, and after three days the other groups on our floor—the group in the hallway, the ones with Rory, and the ones with Richard—had built up their supplies, surviving on starvation-level rations, where we'd nearly run out.†
p. 190.7
- I was making sure that Lauren and Luke got most of the rations allotted to me, so I was literally starving.†
p. 191.1 *
- "We have about three days of food left at starvation rations," I explained.†
p. 210.8
- We'd become experts at rationing out calories.†
p. 210.8rationing = restricting the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage
- I was finding three or four bags per location, and with an average of about two thousand calories per bag, each location represented nearly a day's worth of food for our group on starvation rations.†
p. 236.3
- Starvation rations weren't going to be enough, not in this cold.†
p. 236.4
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)