rationing

English

Verb

rationing

1. presentparticipleandgerundofration

Noun

rationing(countableanduncountable,pluralrationings)

1. Aration.
2. Controlleddistributionof scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically inwartime.
   • 1940July, “Notes and News: Paper Control and the" Railway Magazine "”, inRailway Magazine,page417:

     The drasticrationingof paper enforced by the paper control, has made it necessary for us to adapt ourselves to the altered conditions.

   • 2023March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, inRAIL,number978,page51:

     After petrolrationingended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.

Related terms

• ration stamp

Translations

ration—seeration

controlled distribution of scarce resources

• Danish:rationering(da)c
• Dutch:rantsoenering(nl)f
• Finnish:säännöstely(fi)
• French:rationnement(fr)m
• German:Rationierung(de)f
• Gujarati:ફાળવણી(phāḷvaṇī),માપબંધી(māpbandhī)
• Italian:razionamento(it)m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:rasjoneringmorf

  Nynorsk:rasjoneringf

• Polish:racjonowanien,reglamentacjaf
• Russian:норми́рование(ru)n(normírovanije)
• Spanish:racionamentom
• Swedish:ransonering(sv)c

Anagrams

• arointing,originant