rationing

1. A regulated allocation of resources among possible users.

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.

Example Sentences

But he said that even rationing might not be enough to prevent a disaster.

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Both took an almost perverse pride in going without, as if they remained under a permanent system of wartime rationing.

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Ukraine has struck Russian energy infrastructure throughout the nearly four-year war but has intensified its attacks in recent months, causing petrol prices to spike and forcing some regions to introduce fuel rationing.

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This summer, the matcha dealer called to say that after a decade of importing from Japan, she had been forced to start rationing supply.

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Energy supplies would last longer if electricity rationing is imposed, a step that would ripple through Taiwanese manufacturing, including the semiconductor industry, whose shutdown would have a global impact.

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