nnoun.actthe act of rationingExamples:- during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline
Derivationally Related Form:ration
Hypernyms:allocation allotment apportioning apportionment assignation parceling parcelling
Inherited Hypernyms:rationingallotmentdistributionacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
vverb.possessionrestrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during warExamples:- Bread was rationed during the siege of the city
Derivationally Related Form:rationingration
Hypernyms:curb curtail cut back restrict
Inherited Hypernyms:rationrestrictlimitdecreasechange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.possessiondistribute in rations, as in the armySynset:ration ration out
Derivationally Related Form:ration
Hypernyms:allocate apportion
Inherited Hypernyms:rationallocateassigndistributegivetransfer
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s something to somebody