Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
- 2noun
Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
- 3transitive verb
To supply with rations, as a regiment.
- 4noun
the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)
"the rations should be nutritionally balanced"
- 5noun
a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)
- 6verb
distribute in rations, as in the army
"Cigarettes are rationed"
- 7verb
restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
"Bread was rationed during the siege of the city"
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