单词 | rationless |
释义 | rationlessadj. Without rations; (esp. of troops) not supplied with rations. ΚΠ 1832 Fife Herald 5 Jan. 174/3 It will show in our own land whether those times have passed away, even in the most civilized and Christian nation upon earth, in which governors could presume to overlook the governed, and treat men worse than the rationless creatures in their stalls,—as a slave,—a beast of burden,—a thing no use but for the service of his master. 1842 in Times (1843) 9 Jan. 5/6 The privations endured..by the soldiery, being tentless and bedless, from camels falling and their loads destroyed on the road, and often, too, rationless they have been sent. 1930 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 9 May 1/1 Since 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the occupants of ‘tent city’..have been rationless. 1990 A. Seaton Russo-German War, 1941–45 xii. 182 The troops went rationless, except for tea and potatoes looted from the farms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1832 |
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