Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective distributed equitably in limited individual portions
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Examples
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Anyone who doesn't believe that their healthcare isn't already being rationed is fooling themselves.
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Republican fear mungering about people getting their care rationed is just hypocritical.
King: Uninsured 23-year-old battles leukemia, medical bills 2009
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Rationed care – America is already waist-deep in rationed care.
Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate 2009
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Cuts of meat or fish are offered to him in rationed stores.
Survivor 2004
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Cuts of meat or fish are offered to him in rationed stores.
Survivor 2004
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For believing in capitalism, a free market and rejecting the idea of rationed healthcare.
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"We live in a world of scarce resources where everything is naturally" rationed "based on who can afford those resources ..."
CNN Truth Squad: Is health care rationing in the cards? 2009
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We live in a world of scarce resources where everything is naturally "rationed" based on who can afford those resources.
CNN Truth Squad: Is health care rationing in the cards? 2009
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Thankfully Grandma was denied a life saving operation last year and little timmy is in line trying to get 'rationed' health care but being denied due to his 'pre-existing' condition.
President Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Harper 2009
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For anybody who can actually think, it's pretty apparent that insurance companies are already deciding who gets what treatments and what is being "rationed" so their stockholder can enjoy bigger dividends.
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