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rationing

rationing

26 4.8
A system that limits how much food or fuel people can have when there is not enough
  • noun
  • /ˈræʃənɪŋ/
: racionamiento
  • The wartime rationing of gasoline affected everyone's ability to travel freely.
  • rationing system
  • shortages and rationing
  • food rationing

There will be rationing of food and other daily necessities and things like that.

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Examples

  • On the positive side, rationing was an equalizer and welfare tool in the midst of scarcity.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Will Americans accept food rationing in order to feed millions of people worldwide?

    Academic text (2000)
  • Even before government rationing took effect, the demand for new cars fell nearly to zero.

    Academic text (1997)
  • We're on strict water rationing.

  • There will be rationing of food and other daily necessities and things like that.

  • Under the new communist regime, the free market system was eliminated and food rationing was introduced.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Further shortages, fuel rationing, and damaging price controls are predicted for the last quarter of 2000.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Consequences of that action in Syria and Iraq included power shortages, water rationing, and failed crops.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Oregon confronted rationing head-on in a policy to address demand for Medicaid services.

    Academic text (1994)
  • And the town of Texarkana, population 40,000, which straddles the Texas-Arkansas border, was regearing for peace after four years of rationing, war bonds, and shortages.

Antonyms

157 3.1

An amount that is more than what is needed

How Restricted

rationed
6 6.2
rationing
26 4.8
allocation
52 4.3

Surface Forms

rationing singular
rationings plural

Morphology

rationing = ration (transparent) = ration + ing

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ing' to the verb 'ration' to denote the action or system of rationing, a directly derivable meaning.

Etymology

Rationing comes from ration, from the Latin root ratio meaning 'reason' or 'to count'. So, rationing is the system of giving each person a fixed, carefully counted share when supplies are short.