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rationed

distributed \distributed\ adj.

  1. spread from a central location to multiple points or recipients. Opposite of concentrated. [Narrower terms: apportioned, dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out; diffuse, diffused; dispensed; dispersed, spread; divided, divided up, shared, shared out on the basis of a plan or purpose); encyclical; rationed; scattered, widespread; sparse, thin; unfocused, unfocussed] Also See: distributive.

  2. spread among a variety of securities; -- of investments.

    Syn: diversified.

    Distributing to the necessity of saints.
    --Rom. xii. 1

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rationed

vb. (en-past of: ration)

WordNet
rationed

adj. distributed equitably in limited individual portions; "got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar"

Usage examples of "rationed".

Of course they will be rationed while they are here, and will be under my general orders until I hear from Cradock.

The papers might be rationed for newsprint, old Troy was not rationed for words.

The federal government urged all Americans to conserve essential foods for the sake of the other rationed or starving nations.

Organized crime syndicates made huge profits during the war by illegally selling food and other rationed commodities.

Many of them never reopened, since gasoline remained strictly rationed throughout the war.

Many other vendors also sold hot dogs, and they too were a rationed item.