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ration

noun

1 I'm a firm believer in a daily ration of chocolate:

allowance, allocation, quota, fixed amount, amount, quantity, share, portion, helping, allotment, measure, part, lot, proportion, percentage;

rare apportionment, quantum, moiety.

2 (rations) the garrison had run out of rations:

supplies, provisions, food, food and drink, foodstuffs, eatables, edibles;

necessaries, necessities, stores;

Scottish vivers;

informal grub, eats;

North American, informal chuck;

archaic victuals, vittles, viands, meat, commons;

rare comestibles, provender, aliment, viaticum.

verb

1 coal and petrol were also rationed:

control, limit (to a fixed amount), restrict (the consumption of), conserve, budget.

2 they rationed out the water:

distribute, share out, measure out, divide out/up, apportion, give out, deal out, issue, allocate, allot, dispense, hand out, pass out, dole out, parcel out;

rare admeasure.

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