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.
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Rationed care – America is already waist-deep in rationed care.
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Cuts of meat or fish are offered to him in rationed stores.
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Cuts of meat or fish are offered to him in rationed stores.
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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 ..."
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We live in a world of scarce resources where everything is naturally "rationed" based on who can afford those resources.
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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.
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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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