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- noun Plural form of
rationer .
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Examples
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My main argument on the night was that restricting design knowledge to a select few was a sure way of ensuring that design becomes a niche activity, opening up a space that will be filled with self-taught designers - exactly the sort of design-poor scenario I think the 'rationers' are worried 'over supply' of design graduates will create.
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My main argument on the night was that restricting design knowledge to a select few was a sure way of ensuring that design becomes a niche activity, opening up a space that will be filled with self-taught designers - exactly the sort of design-poor scenario I think the 'rationers' are worried 'over supply' of design graduates will create.
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The NHS shake-up risks wrecking GPs' relationship with their patients by turning them into rationers of care who deny the sick the treatment they need, warns the chair of the Royal College of GPs.
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Disempowering the expert drug rationers of Nice from doing their nasty job, and sacking commissioners who have been getting better at their work, is institutional vandalism.
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They are the rationers – they want to ration benefits of citizenship according to free market principles.
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(There were a few rationers in the audience it turned out who simply didn't listen to what we were saying, which worried me a bit)
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(There were a few rationers in the audience it turned out who simply didn't listen to what we were saying, which worried me a bit)
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At the same time, their political power is enhanced if shortages are handled through government rationing rather than market forces, since politicians get to make the rationing decision — just think of all those constituencies who will pour in campaign donations to try to get special rights to water from the water rationers.
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Ministers were responding to years of anger over a system which meant patients were unable to secure life-extending drugs because central NHS rationers had decided the treatments were not "cost effective".
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Some GPs are eager to run the £80bn NHS budget and become the chief rationers but, she says, "most are not".
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