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Перевод: rationing

[существительное]
нормирование продуктов; нормирование промтоваров

Тезаурус:

1. Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do.
2. One reason for varying the itinerary of the Conference was the stringency of post-war rationing.
3. Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books, which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates, especially in the face of wartime rationing; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes, for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill.
4. Not least, the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods, and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments, did not fear a war on the 1914-;18 scale, and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements.
5. Petrol rationing, restricted travel, limited travel allowances, the Iron Curtain, expensive air travel and ships still commandeered, made travel in the immediate post-war period seem a bleak prospect.
6. Bread rationing continued until July 1948, and clothes rationing until 1949 (when the University of Keele was founded and Orwell's 1984 published).
7. Rationing, which still applied to meat, bacon, butter, cheese, tea, sugar and sweets, actually became more austere than it had been in 1945.
8. They were less involved in thinly rationing existing services than is often necessary in social work and more able to concentrate help so as to provide a relatively complete service capable of achieving significant change for some people.
9. It has had three chances to cure the structural problems of the UK - abolition of rationing and freeing the interest mechanism from the Dalton experience in the 1950s, the Selsden Man competition and credit control in the 1970s, and the deregulation and monetarism of the 1980s.
10. Rationing of sweets, like food and clothing, was continued for several years after the war was over, and people like me with a sweet tooth used to bemoan the meagre ration of sweets and chocolate we were allowed.
11. A boss who was accused of rationing his workers' toilet paper today insisted "I'm no skinflint".
12. I can't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf, but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on, the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying, for instance, a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women, especially those with children, whose needs had to come first.
13. "But the impact of rationing on the small, independent cheese-making sector is bound to be greater than on larger sectors."