rationing

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rationing

  1. presentparticipleandgerundofration

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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.
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