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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rations" is not correct in written English.
It should be "rations" without the article "a," as "rations" is typically used in plural form to refer to a portion of food or supplies.
Example: "The soldiers were given rations for the week to sustain them during their mission."
Alternatives: "food supplies" or "provisions."
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In addition to free medical care and education, the government gave its citizens a rations card, which allowed them to buy heavily subsidized rations for minimal cost.
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Buchanan, A, Rationing Without Justice, But Not Unjustly, Journal of Health Politics, Law & Policy (1998).
Everything was on a ration card.
Money could equally be conceived as a ration chit.
Nura went through a bottle a week, a ration she had established years earlier.
Phones were a luxury and, like everything else in our compound, a rationed commodity.
In this tier there might emerge, over time, a rationing of health care by income class.
(Yes, with some limits on how much he put in a ration).
In addition, state officials adopted a rationing system that helped control demand, the experts said.
"The reality is that the world has found a rationing process.
But there is a rationing of support all over the country.
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