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Synonyms for ration

Most common

allowance allotment

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A portion of some limited resource, especially food, allocated to a person, group or period.

    Jack gathered his meager ration of food.

Forms

Plural
rations → allowances, allotments, shares, portions…

Example sentences

  • allowance Ziri took away Rima’s allowance for a whole month.
  • allotment A good method for investing is a monthly allotment.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
rationfalling
allowancefalling
allotmentfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
share1
7 letters
helping2, portion2
9 letters
allowance3, allotment3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (helping2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
ration
Italiano
razione
Español
ración