RATION Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of ration

as in to allot

to give as a share or portion the region has had to ration water during times of drought

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ration

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noun

as in allowance

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Recent Examples of ration

Verb

Puerto Rico will implement water rationing measures in San Juan and other major cities starting today as a drought grips the territory. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026 The government has rationed fuel sales, and on the black market a liter of gasoline sells for as much as $10. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026

Noun

Soon after Lotti posted the video about the blackout, another video about Cuba’s decades-old ration book — and what people can and can’t buy with it — drew millions of views. — Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026 Without insurance, patients are much more likely to skip doctor appointments, skip or ration medications or even choose not to fill a prescription. — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for ration

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For a long time, the prime real estate for podcast discovery was Apple’s iTunes, where new podcasts were allotted their own row for a week.

— Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Experts say the vast majority of nonprofits cap the amount of vacation time an employee can accrue, most often to one-and-a-half times the vacation hours allotted to them for a single year.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of allot

Noun

Where a club’s PSR loss was less than £10million over the past two seasons, owners will be allowed to inject a further £13m over the next three seasons, on top of the aforementioned equity allowance.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Leo added that he was never shown the terms of reference and the investigation report made no substantive allowances for his mental health or previous experience of discrimination.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of allowance

Verb

The goal is to empower more women to allocate capital, fundamentally changing who gets funded and driving future innovation, rather than waiting for the traditional system to change.

— Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
For years, states have tried to discuss how to allocate and conserve the water in the basin, but negotiations have led to disagreements and even threats of lawsuits.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of allocate

Noun

But developers accustomed to CUDA may need to rewrite and optimize substantial portions of their existing code before moving their training workloads to Ascend.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026
That effectively takes a large portion of the National Guard off the table, narrowing the pool of available units at a time when the force is also balancing deployments and other commitments overseas.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of portion

Verb

Those who’ve reported to ICE offices after receiving the notices have been outfitted with ankle monitors that allow authorities to track their location, Dorsainvil says, and many have been assigned court dates in about a month.

— Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
In one case, several systems worked on a problem in parallel, one cheated outright, and the system assigned to summarize their work did not flag it.

— Craig S. Smith, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of assign

Noun

Eovaldi's move to the IL comes after the activations of left-handers Cody Bradford and Jordan Montgomery, who, like Eovaldi, were part of the Rangers' World Series championship team in 2023.

— CBS News, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Quincy’s Hispanic population increased from 37% in 1990 to around 75%, and a large migrant farmworker population also works there part of the year.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of part

Verb

Uganda received its first batch of nearly 20,000 doses of lenacapavir in February and began distributing it in April, one month behind schedule.

— Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 13 Aug. 2026
Images distributed by Iran’s semiofficial news agency ISNA showed oil fouling the island's beaches.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of distribute

Noun

Rooms No two suites are alike, their proportions and personalities dictated by the quirks of the original buildings, but all claim equally lovely views.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
Occasionally, a near-identical decision draws public anger, employee resentment, or regulatory attention far out of proportion to the deal.

— ESMT Berlin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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