Rations

Word RATIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Rations"

What do we mean by rations?

A portion of some limited resource allocated to a person or group.

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The word "rations" in example sentences

The soldiers now received their rations from the confiscated provisions, and they received them first. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All the young guards were replaced by old men Dads Army Men, two POW's were chosen every other day to go and help the guard fetch the rations from a village about 4 miles away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Liberating the rations from the defeated German troops, costumed heroes sit and catch up with the men of the 761st. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Soon the Americans were better fed than the Germans, yet-like British prisoners elsewhere-the U.S. prisoners continued to take their daily rations from the Germans. 8 ❋ Unknown (2008)

No matter – we made do with some of the emergency rations from the freezer (Stouffers lasagna and garlic bread). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Since the food ration of all of the prisoners was constantly low, a cut in rations was not usually used as a punishment. ❋ Unknown (1996)

A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. ❋ Unknown (1945)

These include special hospital cars to serve as medical centres of trains carrying casualties; commissary kitchen cars for troop trains, where mess orderlies may obtain rations to serve men in coaches; "long-table" diners for troops, providing 25 per cent more seating capacity at the tables; cafe cars, coffee shops on wheels; and new types of coaches for industrial trains, with seating capacity of 122 instead of the usual 72 passengers. ❋ Unknown (1942)

This for us who had been for months living on salt pork and rice, beans and dried apples, who were to live on that fare (and in short rations, too) until poor old Richmond fell! ❋ Unknown (1911)

Our hustlers drew better rations from the farmers. ❋ Unknown (1907)

The plantations pay "rations" -- a peck of common meal and four pounds of bacon per week, and 35c. to 50c. per day, the latter mostly in promises. ❋ Various (N/A)

However, my father soon began working for wages, and received $10 per month and the proverbial "rations" -- three pounds of meat and a peck of meal per week. ❋ Booker T. Washington (1885)

Times when I was in that Yankee stockade eatin’ th’ swill they called rations I used to dream ’bout them pickles an’ canned peaches an’ crackers with long sweetin’ poured on ’em! " ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

The fact is that Eisenhower's reclassification of prisoners and the cuts in their rations are all confirmed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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