From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrationsrations[plural]PMDLO a fixed amount of food given to a soldier or member of a group emergency food rations The prisoners were queuing for their meagre rations (=small rations). We were on short rations (=given a smaller amount than usual). → ration
Examples from the Corpus
rations• U.S. planes dropped army rations to refugees along the border. 