RATIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rationing mean? 

• RATIONING (noun)
  The noun RATIONING has 1 sense:

1. the act of rationing

  Familiarity information: RATIONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RATIONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of rationing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline

Hypernyms ("rationing" is a kind of...):

allocation; allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)

Derivation:

ration (restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war)