ration
Fixed daily share
A ration is a fixed allowance of something, typically food or supplies distributed during scarcity: war rations, emergency rations.
Governments ration goods when demand exceeds supply.
The plural rations often means provisions generally: The soldiers received their daily rations.
To ration is to distribute in controlled amounts or to limit consumption: We rationed the water carefully.
Designated share or portion
- portionDivided share given
- sharePortion given out
- quotaFixed assigned amount
- apportionmentDivision into shares
allowance · distribution · measure · assignment · dispensation · division · dole · parcel
Combat ration abbreviation
- messDisorderly, troublesome condition
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- hardtackImperishable unleavened wafer
- biscuitSmall baked quick bread
canteen · commissary · barracks · troops · soldiers · deployment · campaign · quartermaster
Stockpiled food and supplies
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- stockpileAccumulated reserve supply
- preparednessState of being equipped
- survivalistSelf-reliance extremist
cache · supplies · shelf-stable · preserved · bunker · subsistence · foraging · lifeboat
allotment
Designated share or portion
apportionment · allowance · distribution · measure · assignment · dispensation · division · dole · parcel · helping
MRE
Combat ration abbreviation
- messDisorderly, troublesome condition
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
- hardtackImperishable unleavened wafer
biscuit · canteen · commissary · barracks · troops · soldiers · deployment · campaign · quartermaster · supply line
provisions
Stockpiled food and supplies
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- stockpileAccumulated reserve supply
- preparednessState of being equipped
survivalist · cache · supplies · shelf-stable · preserved · bunker · subsistence · foraging · lifeboat · castaway
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
coupons · queuing · austerity · deprivation · privation · insufficiency · dearth · deficit · blockade · hoarding
regulate
Control by rules
apportion · distribute · manage · meter · budget · allocate · curtail · moderate · economize · stretch
- limitslimit, limits, limitation, upper limit, lower limit
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- dividing and givingdistribute, allocate, divide, give, share
- piecespiece, bit, chunk, fragment, part
- food portionsserving, portion, helping, slice, scoop
- portioningportion, divide, share, distribute, allocate
rationhoard
Hidden accumulated valuables
monopolize · withhold · keep · confiscate · retain
- rational thoughtLogic-based mental process
- ration booksWartime supply allocation documents
- ration stampsControlled-purchase authorization slips
- military rationPortable soldier food
- food rationingControlled distribution of provisions
- emergency rationsFood for crises
ratio, rational, irrational, rations, rationale, rationally, rationality, rationalize, rationalism