ration
verb/ˈræʃn/
/ˈræʃn/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ration | /ˈræʃn/ /ˈræʃn/ |
| he / she / it rations | /ˈræʃnz/ /ˈræʃnz/ |
| past simple rationed | /ˈræʃnd/ /ˈræʃnd/ |
| past participle rationed | /ˈræʃnd/ /ˈræʃnd/ |
| -ing form rationing | /ˈræʃənɪŋ/ /ˈræʃənɪŋ/ |
- to limit the amount of something that somebody is allowed to have, especially because there is not enough of it available
- be rationed Eggs were rationed during the war.
- These foods had to be strictly rationed.
- be rationed to something The villagers are rationed to two litres of water a day.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverbsee also rationing- strictly
- to
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from Latin ratio(n-) ‘reckoning, ratio’.
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