rationing

rationing

1. present participle and gerund of ration

rationing (countable and uncountable, plural rationings)

1. A ration.
2. Controlled distribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically in wartime.
   • 1940 July, “Notes and News: Paper Control and the "Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page 417:

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

   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:

     After petrol rationing ended 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.

• ration stamp

• arointing, originant