extra ration

collocation in English

meaningsofextraandration

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extra
adjective
uk
/ˈek.strə/us
/ˈek.strə/
added to what ...
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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 ofextraandrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In that way there is a sort ofextraration.
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An agricultural worker, who gets anextrarationof cheese, eats his cheese at mid-day under the hedge.
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They hear about the weather and the prospects of more dung for food or anextrarationof fertiliser.
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There was anextrarationof cheese provided during the harvest, but it was taken off again.
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The value of this smallextrarationis not so much the extra quantity of calories.
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Theextrarationof cheese is being granted to underground miners and agricultural workers who generally take their mid-day meal with them to work.
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Noextrarationof cheese is available to that class of colliery worker.
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I would give the miners anextrarationof everything in order to persuade them to get us some more coal.
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Why have we got this system whereby the agricultural worker cannot get hisextrarationas of right?
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Twoextrarationcards will be used to supplement the coupons in the ration books.
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Why is he not being allowed anextraration?
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Last year we gave anextrarationof sugar of one lb.
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The onlyextrarationgranted to agricultural workers is the special cheese ration which can already be drawn by the agricultural worker or his wife.
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So far as tea is concerned, all persons over 70 are entitled to theextraration, whether they are in receipt of an old age pension or not.
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Is it not true that those are the children in the big towns, and that thisextrarationis not given to the children in the countryside?
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It has increased the work a good bit, having anextrarationof 4½ d. a day that the men can take up from the paymaster or the canteen.
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On completion of the task, it was customary for the men to be rewarded with anextrarationof rum.
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On special occasions anextrarationwould be introduced.
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Free grails can be opened by any individual, and as such, are valued for anextrarationof goods at each interval.
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