field ration

1. 1.

   rations issued for United States troops in the field

   Broaderration

   NarrowerK rationC-ration

Questions about field ration

What does field ration mean?

field ration means "rations issued for United States troops in the field".

Is field ration a common word?

field ration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.