[U] the policy of limiting the amount of food, fuel, etc. that people are allowed to have when there is not enough for everyone to have as much as they want:
The government may have to introduce water rationing. * wartime rationing (= introduced during a war) * credit rationing (= limiting the amount of money that people are allowed to borrow)
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