verb
- Restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war.
- usage: "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city"
- synonyms: ration
- Distribute in rations, as in the army.
- usage: "Cigarettes are rationed"
- synonyms: ration, ration out
adjective
- Distributed equitably in limited individual portions.
- usage: "got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar"
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