rations

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the total amount of food that is given to someone to be eaten during a particular activity and in a particular period of time, especially an amount given to soldiers when they are fighting:

Rations were frequently allocated in public to ensure fairness.

Officers were often able to buy their own supplies and thus supplement their rations.

We had to make our rations last.

We lived on rations for years during the war.

These people need emergency rations to survive.

Our rations while we were on deployment were disgusting.

the food given to someone at one time, esp. to soldiers:

He fed prisoners the same rations he fed his own troops.