rationing

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A regulated allocation of resources among possible users.

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notes for rationing

The U.S. government has engaged in rationing usually only under conditions of extreme shortage or economic hardship; certain resources were rationed, for example, during World War II.

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How to use rationing in a sentence

It could be that doctors are rationing health care—refusing to schedule appointments.
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Because it has, in the past, been a tool of racism and colonialism, and in the present, is a means of rationing health care.
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The British and French, who would soon leave, in the meantime, had to impose oil rationing.
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And the Republican attacks on the health-care bill are replete with paranoia about rationing and death panels.
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In the theoretical model, there is no such thing as unemployment, no such thing as credit rationing.
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At present, it is only attached to my command for convenience of rationing and pay.
Under Wellington's Command|G. A. Henty
David Cooper gave Elysée brief instructions on rationing water, and the old man limped downstairs as the firing began again.
Shaman|Robert Shea
There being no system of rationing, only the well-to-do could buy the dearer necessities of ordinary life.
Eastern Nights - and Flights|Alan Bott
Still, it might be a good plan to sack all the servants before rationing comes in, and engage deaf-mutes.
The Title|Arnold Bennett
Such hampering restrictions as conscription to fight or work, or rationing, have been removed.
The Sensitive Man|Poul William Anderson