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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of rationing; "during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline"

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Rationing is the system of limiting the amount of food, water, petrol, or other necessary substances that each person is allowed to have or buy when there is not enough of them. The municipal authorities here are preparing for food rationing. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp

Moby Thesaurus

apportionment, arrest, arrestation, budgeting, check, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, cutting, cutting the pie, deceleration, dividing, division, divvy, hindrance, inhibition, injunction, interdict, legal restraint, monopoly, parceling, partition, partitioning, portioning, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rein, repartition, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation, retrenchment, self-control, sharing, sharing out, slicing, slowing down, splitting, tariff wall, thought control