alimitedamountof something that onepersonisallowedto have,especiallywhen there is not much of itavailable:
（尤指在分配物短缺时的）配给量，定量配给
During thewar, no one wasallowedmore thantheirrationoffood,clothingandfuel.战争期间，所有人得到的食物、衣服和燃料都不得超过其配给量。
rations[plural]
thetotalamountoffoodthat is given to someone to beeatenduring aparticularactivityand in aparticularperiodoftime,especiallyanamountgiven tosoldierswhen they arefighting
（尤指发给作战士兵的）口粮配给，口粮定量
anamountof something that you wouldexpectto have:
合理的量；正常量；认为应该得到的量
We've had more thanourrationofproblemsrecently.最近我们遇到的问题很多，超出我们的能力范围了。
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verb[T]
uk/ˈræʃ.ən/us/ˈræʃ.ən/
tolimittheamountof aparticularthing that someone isallowedto have:
对…实行配给；定量供应；限定…的量
Do yourememberwhenpetrolwas rationedtofivegallonsaweek?你还记得以前每周配给5加仑汽油的时候吗？
Mychildrenwouldwatchtelevisionalldaylong, but I ration it.要不是我加以限制，孩子们会整天整天地看电视。
The rations provided by the finca were not enough for subsistence, making workers dependent on the over-priced company store (tienda de raya) for food.
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Waiting lists may be a misleading indicator of performance, although symbolic of rationing in a wider sense.
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The more material questions about resources, rationing and priority setting are passed on to the 'empowered' clinicians and managers responsible for delivering services.
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The tone of the case managers' rationing often communicated a damaging sense of personal erasure.
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He argues that while rationing is inevitable under conditions of physical scarcity, there are alternatives when funding is the main issue.
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Elderly people's accounts of home care rationing : missing voices in longterm care policy debates.
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Perhaps the deportees previously received ordinary bread rations that went bad during the journey, whereas hardtack was supposed to keep well.
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Corporate competitions again flourished as a way for corporations to maintain a public image when products were rationed and taken off the market.
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In finer detail, rationing, as a ' social technology', involved fine-tuning the subjectivity of the recipient (and, by extension, their relations with the provider) as individuals.
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The outcome of rationing can only be described as ' fair ' if it is consistent with social values.
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The island continually flipflops from water rationing for over a million of its inhabitants to flooding that causes millions of dollars' worth of property loss.
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In our setting, another case of interest is that in which the other goods are rationed ex ante but are chosen optimally upon residential relocation.
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They worked in isolation, with poor accommodation and rations, exposed to a range of diseases, and were relatively poorly paid.
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More often, they were not paid at all, just given poor quality rations and cast-off clothes.
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The latter formulation most overtly "rations" scarce services, and this genre of guidelines is the topic of our analysis.
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ration
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daily ration
Or, game secured as they went along could replace part of thedailyration, enabling the preserved food to last longer than planned.
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emergency ration
They lead a harassed life dealing with customers' ration books,emergencyrationcards, weekly returns, points, and that kind of thing.
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extra ration
In that way there is a sort ofextraration.
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