ration

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1. ration - Noun

2. ration - Verb

Meaning

A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.

Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.

To supply with rations, as a regiment.

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If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. Learned Hand

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say. Eva Ibbotson

Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands? Emil Cioran

You have to ration your opponents' victories. You have to mete them out, slowly and meanly. You have to make your opponents subliminally grateful for every little bit of compliance. That way you get away with giving up ten small losses a day, rather than ten big ones. Lee Child

Those who have hitherto governed the nation, believing, and believing with justice, that ignorance and docility go hand in hand, have taken care to ration the education of the workers in doses small enough to be innocuous to the established order. R. H. Tawney

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it. Charlie Norwood

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