rations

The word “rations” has 2 syllables: ra-tions

It's pronounced as /ˈræʃənz/


What is synonym and antonym for rations?

In the thesaurus, “rations” has 129 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rations along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for rations

  • accords
  • admeasures
  • administers
  • aliment
  • allocates
  • allotments
  • allots
  • allowances
  • allows
  • apportions
  • assigns
  • awards
  • bite
  • board
  • bread
  • chips in
  • chow
  • chuck
  • comestible
  • comestibles
  • commissary
  • commissions
  • commons
  • contributes
  • cuts
  • daily bread
  • deals
  • diet
  • dish
  • dispenses
  • distributes
  • divides
  • doles out
  • donates
  • earmarks
  • eatables
  • eats
  • edibles
  • ends
  • ensilage
  • fare
  • feast
  • feed
  • finger food
  • fodder
  • food
  • foodstuff
  • foodstuffs
  • forage
  • gives
  • goodies
  • grants
  • groceries
  • grub
  • grubbery
  • hands out
  • items
  • larder
  • lots
  • material
  • materials
  • meal
  • meals
  • measures
  • meat
  • members
  • menu
  • mess
  • meters
  • natural food
  • necessities
  • nosh
  • nourishment
  • nurture
  • nutriment
  • nutrition
  • pabulum
  • pap
  • partitions
  • parts
  • percentages
  • pieces
  • plate
  • platter
  • portions
  • proportions
  • prorates
  • provender
  • provision
  • provisions
  • quotas
  • raw materials
  • reallocates
  • reapportions
  • reassigns
  • redistributes
  • refreshments
  • regale
  • repast
  • replenishments
  • reserves
  • sections
  • segments
  • serving
  • shares
  • silage
  • slices
  • slop
  • snack
  • snacks
  • splits
  • spread
  • staples
  • stock
  • store
  • stores
  • subsistence
  • supplies
  • sustenance
  • swill
  • table
  • takes
  • tidbits
  • tucker
  • viand
  • viands
  • victual
  • victuals
  • vittles

Antonyms for rations

  • aggregates
  • appropriates
  • arrogates
  • bane
  • begrudges
  • composites
  • compounds
  • confiscates
  • denies
  • deprivation
  • indulgence
  • keeps
  • poison
  • pools
  • retains
  • starvation
  • stints
  • sums
  • totalities
  • totals
  • toxin
  • venom
  • wholes
  • withholds

Meanings of rations

  • noun
    1. A portion of some limited resource allocated to a person or group.
  • verb
    1. To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something.
    2. To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to.
    3. To restrict (an activity etc.).

Example Sentences

  • The soldiers were given their rations for the long journey ahead.
  • The government had to distribute rations to the survivors of the disaster.
  • They had to carefully manage their rations to make it through the week.
  • The store ran out of rations, causing concern among the shoppers.
  • The ship’s crew was limited to a few rations of food per day.

On this page you'll find 153 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rations, such as: accords, admeasures, administers, aggregates, aliment, allocates, allotments.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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salads

  • accumulations
  • admixtures
  • agglomerates
  • agglomerations
  • aggregates
  • aggregations
  • alloys
  • alphabet soups
  • amalgams
  • assortments
  • blends
  • bollixes
  • botches
  • catchalls
  • chaoses
  • clutters
  • collages
  • combinations
  • commixtures
  • composites
  • compounds
  • confusions
  • conglomerates
  • conglomerations
  • crazy quilts
  • detritus
  • disarrangements
  • disarrays
  • disorders
  • farragoes
  • fusions
  • gallimaufries
  • grab bags
  • gumbos
  • hashes
  • hodgepodges
  • hotchpotches
  • imbroglios
  • intermixtures
  • jambalayas
  • jumbles
  • jungles
  • knots
  • litters
  • medleys
  • menageries
  • messes
  • miscellanea
  • miscellanies
  • mishmashes
  • mix-ups
  • mixed bags
  • montages
  • morasses
  • motleys
  • muddles
  • notions
  • oddments
  • odds and ends
  • olios
  • olla podridas
  • ollas podridas
  • omnium-gatherums
  • pastiches
  • patchwork quilts
  • patchworks
  • potpourris
  • ragbags
  • ragouts
  • rummages
  • salmagundis
  • scrambles
  • shambles
  • shuffles
  • smorgasbords
  • snarls
  • stews
  • sundries
  • tangles
  • tumbles
  • varieties
  • welters

salaries

  • bacon
  • bread
  • compensations
  • double times
  • earnings
  • emolument
  • emoluments
  • fee
  • hire
  • hires
  • income
  • living wages
  • minimum wages
  • nominal wages
  • overtimes
  • packets
  • pay
  • pay envelopes
  • paychecks
  • payments
  • payroll
  • pays
  • profits
  • recompense
  • recompenses
  • recoupments
  • redresses
  • reimbursements
  • remittances
  • remuneration
  • remunerations
  • reparations
  • repayments
  • requitals
  • restitutions
  • returns
  • scale
  • stipend
  • stipends
  • take
  • take-home
  • take-home pays
  • takings
  • time and a halfs
  • wage
  • wages
  • yields

fare

  • accelerate
  • actuate
  • advance
  • afford
  • aliment
  • approach
  • banquet
  • board
  • book
  • bread
  • break bread
  • breakfast
  • carry on
  • charge
  • check
  • chow
  • chuck
  • come
  • come along
  • comestibles
  • commissary
  • commons
  • contrive
  • cope
  • diet
  • dig in
  • dine
  • dine out
  • dish
  • do
  • drive
  • eat
  • eatables
  • eats
  • edibles
  • eke out
  • ensilage
  • expense
  • fast-forward
  • feast
  • feed
  • fend for oneself
  • finger food
  • fodder
  • food
  • foodstuffs
  • forage
  • forge
  • gain ground
  • get along
  • get by
  • get on
  • glut
  • go
  • go along
  • go off
  • gorge
  • gormandize
  • graze
  • grub
  • handle
  • happen
  • hie
  • impel
  • journey
  • last
  • lunch
  • make do
  • make ends meet
  • make headway
  • make out
  • make shift
  • manage
  • march
  • meal
  • meals
  • meat
  • menu
  • mess
  • muddle through
  • natural food
  • near
  • nibble
  • nosh
  • nourishment
  • nurture
  • nutriment
  • overeat
  • overfeed
  • pace
  • pap
  • partake
  • pass
  • passage
  • pick
  • picnic
  • pig out
  • plate
  • platter
  • price
  • proceed
  • progress
  • propel
  • prosper
  • prove
  • provender
  • provision
  • provisions
  • push
  • rations
  • refresh
  • refreshments
  • regale
  • repair
  • repast
  • run
  • scrounge
  • serving
  • shift
  • silage
  • slop
  • slug
  • snack
  • speed
  • spread
  • squeeze
  • stagger
  • sup
  • supplies
  • survive
  • sustenance
  • swill
  • swing
  • table
  • take out
  • tariff
  • ticket
  • token
  • toll
  • travel
  • tucker
  • viands
  • victual
  • victuals
  • vittles
  • wend
  • wrest
  • wring

salivas

  • drools
  • expectorations
  • foams
  • froths
  • salivations
  • slavers
  • slobbers
  • spits
  • spittles
  • sputa
  • sputums

badges

  • accolades
  • applauses
  • attributes
  • awards
  • blue ribbons
  • bravoes
  • bravos
  • citations
  • coats of arms
  • cognizances
  • colophons
  • commendations
  • compliments
  • crests
  • crowns
  • cups
  • decorations
  • distinctions
  • emblems
  • encomia
  • encomiums
  • ensigns
  • eulogies
  • hallelujahs
  • hallmarks
  • homages
  • honorable mentions
  • honors
  • icons
  • ikons
  • impresas
  • insignia
  • insignias
  • kudos
  • laurels
  • logograms
  • logographs
  • logos
  • medals
  • monograms
  • orders
  • paeans
  • panegyrics
  • pictographs
  • plaques
  • plates
  • plaudits
  • plumes
  • premiums
  • prizes
  • ribbons
  • stamps
  • symbols
  • tokens
  • totems
  • trademarks
  • tributes
  • trophies

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