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Another word for ration

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Noun

  1. That which is allotted

      1. To divide. Often used with up:
      2. A share or portion.
      1. To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
      2. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever:
      3. To sever the edges or ends of; shorten:
      1. To divide (something) from end to end, into layers, or along the grain:
      2. To cause to be split unintentionally:
      3. To cause to undergo nuclear fission or division into elements:
      1. A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group:
      2. An equitable portion:
      3. One of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a company is divided:
      1. A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
      2. A production assignment.
      3. A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting or designated as an upper limit:
      1. The smallest amount of a physical quantity that can exist independently, especially a discrete quantity of electromagnetic radiation.
      2. This amount of energy regarded as a unit.
      3. A quantity or amount.
      1. A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
      2. A part separated from a whole.
      3. A helping of food.
      1. A portion, division, piece, or segment of a whole.
      2. Any of several equal portions or fractions that can constitute a whole or into which a whole can be divided:
      3. A division of a book or artistic work such as a film:
      1. A reference standard or sample used for the quantitative comparison of properties:
      2. A unit specified by a scale, such as an inch, or by variable conditions, such as a day's march.
      3. A system of measurement, such as the metric system.
      1. A large extent, amount, or number:
      2. Used adverbially to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”:
      3. A number of associated people or things:
      1. The distribution by the government of relief payments to the unemployed.
      2. A share of money, food, or clothing that has been charitably given:
      3. One's fate.
      1. The act of allowing.
      2. An amount that is allowed or granted:
      3. Something, such as money, given at regular intervals or for a specific purpose:
      1. The act of allotting:
      2. Something allotted:
      1. an allocating or being allocated
      2. a thing or amount allocated
    See also:

    collect

Verb

  1. To give out in portions or shares.

    See also:

    collect

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Another word for ration

Noun
  1. See also:

    food

    share

    division

Verb
  1. See also:

    distribute

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Sentence Examples

  • Ration strength of the field army, about I Io,000.

  • Three centuries later, it became a hereditary right and came with a daily ration of two pounds of bread ("Hey, you don't expect us to cook the free grain, do you?") and occasionally included meat, olive oil, and salt.

  • half-trained elements had to be sent to the front in considerable numbers - indeed the ration strength of the army was actually trebled.

  • There was no additional supply nor could we ration it as there was no way to reignite it.

  • Experimental work has shown that swine fattened with a ration partly of skim-milk were lustier and of a more healthy appearance than swine fattened wholly on grains.

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