ration

A fixed portion, especially an amount of food allotted to persons in military service or to civilians in times of scarcity.

Food issued or available to members of a group.

To supply with rations.

To distribute as rations.

To restrict to limited allotments, as during wartime: synonym: distribute.

To supply with rations; provision.

To divide into rations; distribute or apportion in rations.

An allowance of means of subsistence for a fixed period of time; specifically, in the army and navy, an allotment or apportionment of provisions for daily consumption to each officer and man, or of forage for each horse.

Any stated or fixed amount or quantity dealt out; an allowance or allotment.