RATIONED Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

rationed

verb

past tense of ration

as in allotted

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

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Recent Examples of rationed When rents are not allowed to rise to market rates, apartments are rationed through waiting, connections, lotteries and luck. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 The bottles are now rationed as well, as each customer can only buy two boxes per week per membership. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2026 France devalued its currency in 1927, the United Kingdom abandoned the gold standard in 1931, and the same year Germany imposed import restrictions and rationed access to foreign currency. — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 28 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 During the lean Depression and war years, when unemployment was high and food was being rationed, potlucks provided a social outlet that didn’t put the financial burden on a single host. — Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 The national stockpile of antibiotics is rationed among local distribution centers. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026 No treasurer builds payment flows on an instrument that might be rationed. — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Chips are being rationed; companies like Micron, the data-center dominator, and Applied Materials, which makes equipment for Micron, are, for the first time ever, getting long-term contracts for their wares. — Jim Cramer, Contributor, CNBC, 16 July 2026

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Or the money is being allotted to different charitable organizations.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
The daylong program would be divided into ten-minute segments, with one lighting cue and one sound cue allotted for each.

— Nolan Kelly, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of allotted

Verb

Opponents of the measure also claim that the initiative does not provide guarantees about how the money would be allocated among providers and services.

— Senior Editor, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
This mandated that at least 10% of locally generated, unrestricted revenue be allocated to incarceration alternatives.

— Times staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of allocated

Verb

State officials dismissed the allegation as speculation but explicitly warned the Authority not to pay higher rates for work assigned to those $35-an-hour positions.

— Julie Watts, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2026
The responsibility assigned to Caitlin Clark The list of WNBA media members who have openly called for Clark to denounce online hate, something Clark has done multiple times by the way, is almost too long to count.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of assigned

Verb

Informally distributed agent management responsibilities may work during experimentation, but thousands of agents interacting with applications, data, employees, customers and one another require a more deliberate operating model.

— Lakshmanan Alagappan, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Like its predecessor, the monster follow-up is produced by Toho and is distributed in North America by GKids.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026