noun
Each person is permitted a weekly fixed ration of butter, sugar, coffee, meat, etc. We shall have to go on short rations till we are rescued
It was not till the third week with our rations running low that we really began to worry
verb
As water was in short supply, we had to ration it. One cup was rationed out to each of us every morning
Water had to be rationed to one cup a day for each of us
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