ration
ration is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
- noun. Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
- transitive verb. To supply with rations, as a regiment.
- noun. the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)
"the rations should be nutritionally balanced"
- noun. a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)
- verb. distribute in rations, as in the army
"Cigarettes are rationed"
- verb. restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
"Bread was rationed during the siege of the city"
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ration:
Common word forms
rations, rational, rationed, rationing, rationable, rationless, rationment
Words from these letters
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