Noun: ration
| Singular | ration |
| Plural | rations |
Sample Sentences
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Jack gathered his meager ration of food.
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The town's ration of gasoline had to go to necessary vehicles.
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Betty had divided up her cigarettes to last all month, and her ration for today was only three.
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The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it. [1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like ration
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French ration. Doublet of reason and ratio. See: French Nouns '
ration'.
Verbs referencing "ration"
Irish Nouns
raisín.