Ration is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to distribute in fixed amounts
• allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a commodity)
• allow someone to have only (a fixed amount of a commodity)
• To supply with rations, as a regiment.
• restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
• distribute in rations, as in the army
• limit to a certain amount per person
NOUN:
• a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime
• an amount of food supplied on a regular basis, especially to members of the armed forces during a war
• food; provisions
• a fixed amount of a particular thing
• fixed allowance of food etc
• A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
• Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
• the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)
• a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to distribute in fixed portions

Words related to RATION

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How to use RATION in a sentence

• He was ready for the larger ration Wesley held in his hand.
• The pay of the soldiers is four dollars a month, and a ration, which is equal to six cents a day.
• Only men, by force of will, could live on so unbalanced a ration.
• In the Baltimore prison, we believe the ration is the same with the preceding.
• The morning before, they had issued their last ration of flour.
• The increase of ration has had an enormously beneficial result.
• Yet we had not long to wait and watch, for within half an hour after our arrival the Colonel galloped down into our midst just as the evening ration was being given out.
• Guns, ammunition, ration wagons and troops were everywhere moving up after the advance.
• The emergency ration of the early days of the war was much different from the emergency ration of to-day.
• I have seen these wagons sometimes within five hundred yards of the front line trenches, and again ration parties may have to crawl back a mile before meeting them.
• The hog ration, like the pig ration, varies according to conditions.
• As the cost of food in the different sections of the country varies, so does the cost of the ration.
• The soldiers performed their duties with spirit, and were given a double ration of coffee.
• He could no more write without his stock company of heretic sages than he could write without his ration of malt.
• It has been said, that Colonel Paterson brought out with him a new arrangement of the military ration.
• This was unquestionably a good ration, and when a sufficient number of mills were put up to grind the maize and the wheat, the people themselves allowed it to be so.
• The following ration was also ordered, the maize being nearly expended, viz.
• Some of these were allowed a ration of provisions from the public stores.
• As for a berth, Sir, one always wishes to be captain even though he may be compelled to eat his ration in the lee-scuppers.
• The cause of his surprise being discovered, he was soothed, and then took his usual ration with evident signs of contentment.
• Hardly a word was said until the wine was passed a second time with a ration of hard cheese and another biscuit.
• The capture of a large herd of cattle by the Boers, who neatly drew the animals away from the town by exploding shells behind them, entailed a reduced meat ration.
• He soon appears with one of our paddlers, who states that another one stole his ration, and when he endeavoured to get it back, beat him severely.
• Whenever she went to the hut she would manage to be absent from a meal beforehand, and going to Jean, would ask for her ration of whatever was going.

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