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ˈrationing, vbl. n.
[f. ration v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb.
1865Englishman's Mag. Oct. 312 The rationing of soldiers..was much neglected. 1870Pall Mall G. 10 Dec. 10 You have to dine at a restaurant until your rationing day comes round again.
b. rationing by the purse, raising the price of a commodity so as to restrict the number of people who can afford to buy it. Similarly rationing by price.
1917Times 1 May 7/6 The German Government now knows all about rationing, but while it has been learning the German people has eaten up its supplies. 1924E. M. H. Lloyd Experiments in State Control xxiii. 290 As for the argument that rationing increases consumption, this was not true of the articles most severely rationed in Great Britain. 1930Economist 22 Mar. 637/1 In the last resort, a rationing of credit was the only expedient left to central banks. 1940Times (Weekly ed.) 10 Jan. 9/3 Rationing may have to be used to a much greater extent than in the last war. 1947People 22 June 2, I find school lunches a great help with the rationing problems. Ibid., It is the end of the rationing period. 1950Hansard Commons 24 Apr. 617 Is this not a case of rationing by the purse? 1975S. Briggs Keep Smiling Through 149 The great wartime invention, borrowed from the Germans, was points rationing. This widened choice as much as it could be widened within a rationing system. You could even..choose where to shop without being tied to the grocer where you were registered for basic rations. 1979W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Sept. 16/1 Rationing by price, a system in which economic goods go to the people who are most willing to pay for them. This is the normal way of distributing goods in capitalist countries, and is increasingly used in Communist countries. Economists generally consider it an efficient system, but some politicians consider it immoral and prefer a system of rationing by political pull. |