0 a limited amount of something that one person is allowed to have, especially when there is not much of it available:
1 to limit the amount of a particular thing that someone is allowed to have:
2 a limited amount (of something) that one person is allowed to have, esp. when there is not much of it available:
Rations of rice were distributed to the refugees.
3 a limited amount of something that you are allowed to have when there is not much of it available:
4 to control the supply of something when there is not much of it available, or to limit the amount of a particular thing that someone is allowed to have:
The rations provided by the finca were not enough for subsistence, making workers dependent on the over-priced company store (tienda de raya) for food.
Waiting lists may be a misleading indicator of performance, although symbolic of rationing in a wider sense.
The more material questions about resources, rationing and priority setting are passed on to the 'empowered' clinicians and managers responsible for delivering services.
The tone of the case managers' rationing often communicated a damaging sense of personal erasure.
He argues that while rationing is inevitable under conditions of physical scarcity, there are alternatives when funding is the main issue.
Elderly people's accounts of home care rationing : missing voices in longterm care policy debates.
Perhaps the deportees previously received ordinary bread rations that went bad during the journey, whereas hardtack was supposed to keep well.
Corporate competitions again flourished as a way for corporations to maintain a public image when products were rationed and taken off the market.
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(尤指在分配物短缺時的)配給量,定量配給, 合理的量, 正常量…
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(尤指在分配物短缺时的)配给量,定量配给, 合理的量, 正常量…
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ración, racionar, ración [feminine…
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ração, racionar…
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割当量, 配給量, ~を制限する…
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pay, istihkak, vesika/karne ile dağıt(ıl)mak/ver(il)mek…
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ration [feminine], rationner, ration…
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ració, racionar…
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