I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
iron rations
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
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Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time.
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Would there be enough of it in our daily ration ?
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Another little group lines up with empty tin cans by the single water truck, waiting for the daily ration .
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In the next chapter you will find guidance on your own ideal daily calorie ration .
meagre
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They paraded the smart streets of West London, displaying their meagre weekly rations .
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When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.
short
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At a stroke we were on firm discipline and short rations .
■ NOUN
books
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Cassie didn't see Bella troubling her head with clothing coupons and ration books .
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And they still had ration books when I was a kid.
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No one seemed to have told them about ration books .
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Almost all food is now legally available only to those with ration books .
food
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When the food rations arrive, women have to walk and then to wait again.
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The situation improved, but regular food rations were still barely sufficient to sustain a healthy life.
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Both soil augers have snapped and I fought with Greg over the food rations .
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The United Nations has reported tightening of food rations already in the country.
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All the crews have been warned to carry emergency food rations .
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As food stocks have declined, so has the official food ration , the United Nations says.
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Former combatants waiting to be disarmed in demilitarisation camps have been starved of food rations and other support.
iron
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These would be my iron rations for a hard day's cruising the streets in Armstrong.
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For Jaq by no means equated iron duty with iron rations .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the army we received a daily ration of meat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An animal with a good diet will be larger than its twin on starvation rations.
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At a stroke we were on firm discipline and short rations.
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Both soil augers have snapped and I fought with Greg over the food rations.
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Iron rations were issued for the train or bus journey.
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No one had sleeping gear, or even a decent selection of C rations.
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No one seemed to have told them about ration books.
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The party gave the three some guns and offered them their equal share of the remaining rations.
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The situation improved, but regular food rations were still barely sufficient to sustain a healthy life.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
food
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Calculation How is food to be rationed - on the journey; expedition; during the siege?
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Almost 10 years of bombing and economic sanctions have taken an enormous toll. Food is rationed , as is electricity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sugar, cooking oil and rice will also be rationed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At least we don't have to bother with milk rationing like they do in the towns.
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But times had changed since 1898; wartime regulations had rationed liquor purchases to one bottle per month per customer.
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By the time I'd recovered I was skinnier than ever, having been rationed to an orange a day.
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Cigarettes were rationed at thirty-five a week.
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Fuel rationing started and I canceled my trip.
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In one of my close acquaintances at B.P., rationing and shortages seemed to effect an eccentric metamorphosis.
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It is a mode of rationing.
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Petrol was so strictly rationed in wartime that bikes were always in demand.