The word “ration” comes from the Latin ratio, “a quantitative relationship.” Thus, if people and food are in the ratio of five to four, the food for four people is pooled and divided equally among five—in a word, it is rationed (or ratioed). Long used for the food issued to men in the Army and Navy, the word became familiar to the civilian population in the last war, when foodstuffs, fuels, and so on, ran short, and it is in use again in many countries today.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4
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