meagre ration

collocation in English

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meagre
adjective
uk
/ˈmiː.ɡər/us
/ˈmiː.ɡɚ/
(of amounts or numbers) very small or ...
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ration
noun[C]
uk
/ˈræʃ.ən/us
/ˈræʃ.ən/
a limited amount of something that one person is allowed to have, especially when there is not much of ...
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(Definition ofmeagreandrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In most places even thismeagrerationcannot be fulfilled in prac- tice.
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Cannot we get in a little more stock, in order to maintain themeagrerationwe are supposed to get already?
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How thin is thismeagrerationof kindness to be spread?
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As that is a rathermeagreration, to encroach on other speakers' time would be even more unfair.
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The pacifist is visualised as a person fed on ameagrerationof home-grown food who, on receiving a substantial dump of foreign supplies, waxes fat with offensive zeal.
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In the circumstances where she has to provide all her family meals from themeagrerationshe would feel that she was being given a little extra help.
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They have to find food to accompany themeagrerationof rice supplied to them at the beginning of the adventure.
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They got in the neighbourhood of a shilling, perhaps a little more, and out of that they had to pay extra messing to supplement their meagre rations.
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On the other hand, there was a certain proportion of unemployed who actually could not afford to buy even the meagre rations we are allowed today.
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We could not pay for our food or raw materials; unemployment on a vast scale would be rife; and we should be unable to maintain even our present meagre rations.
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Meagre rations—and this is the point of my entrance into this discussion—have been insufficient to keep the cattle of that part of the country in good condition.
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The senior officer corps lived on meagre rations and saw its privileges and family allowances curtailed over time.
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The expedition was detained by the government for five months, and forced to live in tents in sub-zero conditions and to subsist on meagre rations.
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To supplement their meagre rations, officers were allowed to keep vegetable gardens, which were tended by convicts.
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According to those aboard, conditions were appalling; the crew was worked to the point of exhaustion, given meagre rations and forbidden to wash or change their clothes for several weeks.
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By the end of 1895 after another poor season around half the settlers had left, and those who remained were working hard but surviving on meagre rations.
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