- present participle of ration.
rationing
Example Sentences
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Rationing the drugs is another way to keep spending in check, health economists say.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
Rationing gives your body a chance to start adjusting to the lack of medication.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2023
Rationing has already been in place in at least 17 of mainland China’s more than 30 regions since September, forcing some factories to suspend production and disrupting supply chains.
From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2021
Rationing ensured that only civilian populations in actual war zones were likely to face outright famine, but hunger was widespread everywhere.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Rationing may come yet, but any such system bristles with difficulties.
From Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover by Powdermaker, Florence
Vocabulary lists containing rationing
World War I
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Economics
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