rationing
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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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The effort to train proprietary models has also been hampered by a shortage of computing capacity, with the company rationing server time to ensure availability for OpenAI and other customers of its Azure cloud service.
“Down Victoria Street is Parriss’s sweet shop, but with war rationing, Mr. Parriss doesn’t have much to offer. Neither does the butcher. Don’t know how Mum manages a larder stock, but she does somehow.”
From Literature
There’s a story about someone who’s been rationing their insulin and the downsides of that.
From Los Angeles Times
Like all Cubans, Flores saves water in a tank, rationing it for drinking, cooking, washing and bathing.
The rationing measures are being applied mainly to private firms doing NHS work, but multiple NHS hospitals are understood to be affected too.
From BBC
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