rationing
Example Sentences
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The rationing measures are being applied mainly to private firms doing NHS work, but multiple NHS hospitals are understood to be affected too.
From BBC
But he said that even rationing might not be enough to prevent a disaster.
From BBC
Both took an almost perverse pride in going without, as if they remained under a permanent system of wartime rationing.
This summer, the matcha dealer called to say that after a decade of importing from Japan, she had been forced to start rationing supply.
From Los Angeles Times
Energy supplies would last longer if electricity rationing is imposed, a step that would ripple through Taiwanese manufacturing, including the semiconductor industry, whose shutdown would have a global impact.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
