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say it: RASH-uhn
ration is a noun and verb meaning "the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)
“the rations should be nutritionally balanced”
a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)
restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
“Bread was rationed during the siege of the city”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ration come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.