Rationer vs. Ration: What's the Difference?
Rationer and Ration Definitions
Rationer
One who rations.
Ration
A fixed portion, especially an amount of food allotted to persons in military service or to civilians in times of scarcity.
Ration
Rations Food issued or available to members of a group.
Ration
To supply with rations.
Ration
To distribute as rations
Rationed out flour and sugar.
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Ration
To restrict to limited allotments, as during wartime
Ration gasoline.
Ration
A portion of some limited resource allocated to a person or group.
Ration
(transitive) To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something.
We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.
Ration
(transitive) To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to.
By the third day on the raft, we had to ration our water.
Ration
(transitive) To restrict (an activity etc.)
Our present health care system is rationed only to those who can afford it because of unnecessary high cost, lack of insurance coverage by 47 million people, and exorbitant prescription prices.
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Ration
A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
Ration
Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
Ration
To supply with rations, as a regiment.
Ration
The food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel);
The rations should be nutritionally balanced
Ration
A fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)
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Ration
Restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war;
Bread was rationed during the siege of the city
Ration
Distribute in rations, as in the army;
Cigarettes are rationed
