(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
When there is not enough of something, your ~ of it is the amount that you are allowed to have.
The meat ~ was down to one pound per person per week...
N-COUNT
2.
When something is ~ed by a person or government, you are only allowed to have a limited amount of it, usually because there is not enough of it.
Staples such as bread, rice and tea are already being ~ed...
...the decision to ~ food...
Motorists will be ~ed to thirty litres of petrol a month...
VERB: be V-ed, V n, be V-ed to amount, also V n to amount
3.
Rations are the food which is given to people who do not have enough food or to soldiers.
Aid officials said that the first emergency food ~s of wheat and oil were handed out here last month...
N-PLURAL
4.
Your ~ of something is the amount of it that you normally have.
...after consuming his ~ of junk food and two cigarettes.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
5.
see also ~ing