rationed

6.2

Things like food or water given out in fixed small amounts by the government during shortages

adjective
/ˈræʃənd/

: racionado

In times of drought, water usage is strictly rationed to preserve supplies for everyone.

Praise should not be treated as a rationed item.

Examples

I remember when I was, when I was six years old, so we, we lived in a small communist town and the way that it worked is your food was rationed, right?
Water was rationed, electricity was rationed, food was rationed.
In every country, healthcare services are rationed one way or another.
Everything was rationed, including milk, rice, oil, cooking oil.
All of the notions of other buildings should be environmentally controlled and rationed and so on is part of their design.
During the war, many essential goods were rationed to ensure everyone received a fair share.
The supermarket had to enforce rules that rationed the number of items each customer could buy.

Synonyms

apportioned

vsrationed

6.5

Divided and given out to people or groups according to a plan

is given in limited amounts by authority during scarcity

Antonyms

abundant

77 3.0

Present in large amounts or more than needed

unrestricted

24 4.1

Free from limits and control, it allows people to use or access

How Restricted

restricted

18 3.9

rationed

6.2

limited

393 2.5

unlimited

173 1.5

Surface Forms

rationed positive

Morphology

rationed = ration (transparent) = ration + ed

Formed from the verb 'ration' with the regular past-participial/adjectival suffix '-ed', so the meaning 'distributed in fixed amounts' follows directly.

Etymology

Rationed comes from the Latin root ratio, which means 'calculation' or 'reason' and is the same root you see in the word ratio. Long ago a 'ration' was a 'calculated share', so if something is rationed it is given out in fixed, limited amounts.