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 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 And a single national unemployment rate can make the economy look stable while opportunity is being rationed unevenly underneath. — Katica Roy, Fortune, 14 July 2026

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Edmonton has allotted $37 million to its top three players, which ranks second in hockey.

— Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Time is allotted to various family members, but none of them are fleshed out beyond a single character trait.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of allotted

Verb

In the United States, it is primarily allocated for off highway vehicles such as agricultural machinery and construction equipment.

— , CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Erdos, the Department of Interior official, said that cleanup funds are typically allocated after a collapse or incident occurs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of allocated

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Cybersecurity and software Top picks in cybersecurity and software are Palantir Technologies with a $250 price target and implied upside of 30%, and CrowdStrike — which the analyst assigned a $335 price target signaling a gain of 20%.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Discovery and development Clozapine was named in 1959 by researchers at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Wander AG, where it had been initially synthesized the previous year and assigned the identifier HF-1854.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of assigned

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The funding comes from the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and is distributed to each borough’s arts councils, which act as regrant partners and dole out grants to individual artists annually as part of an open call.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Such direct observations can be detailed, but they are often limited to near-coastal regions and unevenly distributed, while many of the most important stages of hurricane development occur over the open ocean where direct observations are sparse.

— Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026