RATIONING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of rationing

Example:

during the war the government imposed rationing of food and gasoline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rationing" is a kind of...):

allocation; allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)

Derivation:

ration (restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war)

-ing form of the verb ration