rationing

1. A regulated allocation of resources among possible users.

Notes

The U.S. government has engaged in rationing usually only under conditions of extreme shortage or economic hardship; certain resources were rationed, for example, during World War II .

Example Sentences

It could be that doctors are rationing health care—refusing to schedule appointments.

From The Daily Beast

Because it has, in the past, been a tool of racism and colonialism, and in the present, is a means of rationing health care.

From The Daily Beast

The British and French, who would soon leave, in the meantime, had to impose oil rationing.

From The Daily Beast

And the Republican attacks on the health-care bill are replete with paranoia about rationing and death panels.

From The Daily Beast

In the theoretical model, there is no such thing as unemployment, no such thing as credit rationing.

From The Daily Beast

At present, it is only attached to my command for convenience of rationing and pay.

From Project Gutenberg

David Cooper gave Elysée brief instructions on rationing water, and the old man limped downstairs as the firing began again.

From Project Gutenberg

There being no system of rationing, only the well-to-do could buy the dearer necessities of ordinary life.

From Project Gutenberg

Still, it might be a good plan to sack all the servants before rationing comes in, and engage deaf-mutes.

From Project Gutenberg

Such hampering restrictions as conscription to fight or work, or rationing, have been removed.

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