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n. a food stamp
WordNet
n. a card certifying the bearer's right to purchase rationed goods
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- Redirect Ration stamp
In India, ration cards are primarily used when purchasing subsidized foodstuffs (wheat and rice) and fuel (LPG and kerosene). The cards have been used since World War II and their use continues in the 21st century. They are an important subsistence tool for the poor, provide proof of identity and a connection with government databases. India's public distribution system (PDS) is based on the ration card, which it uses to establish identity, eligibility, and entitlement.
Usage examples of "ration card".
Harry and I could have stopped cold half a dozen times, and that's on a motorcycle, press credentials and a gas ration card!
Smugly sure of my own virtue, it would have offended me and humiliated me-to be kept standing like a pariah waiting to whine for the privilege of a ration card-to be placed on the report like a cadet with soup on his jacket.
As one refugee with family still in Iraq observed, 'The need to have a ration card is a form of pressure on families to do what the government wants--for example, to go on a demonstration or to vote.
As one refugee with family still in Iraq observed, 'The need to have a ration card is a form of pressure on families to do what the government wants—.
Her ration card entitled her to three loaves of bread, two hundred grams of meat, one hundred grams of butter, one hundred grams of sugar, a pound of flour and a pound of wheat each week.
He had papers for him to sign, identity documents, a form of ration card, a driving license, a permit to enter the border zone along a specified area, and an old shirt in a briefcase.
In the same case was a ration card with columns for months and rows for rice, meat, beans.
I'm giving you a supplemental ration card for him, as well, which will entitle him to extra foodstuffs while you are here.
The pay meant nothing, she had always earned more than her ration card allowed her to buy.
Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card.