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Definition of Ration card
1. Noun. A card certifying the bearer's right to purchase rationed goods.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ration Card
Literary usage of Ration card
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Egyptian Food Subsidy System: Structure, Performance, and Options for Reform by Akhter U. Ahmed (2001)
"ration card holders register their cards with the grocer of their choice.
The grocer records monthly purchases of sugar and oil on the card, which has space ..."
2. The Pilot Food Price Subsidy Scheme in the Philippines: Its Impact on Income by Marito Garcia, Per Pinstrup-Andersen (1987)
"Participating families could use the ration card only in the accredited stores
and only for the discounted purchase of rice and edible oil. ..."
3. The Scots Law Times by Scotland Land Court (1893)
"... 1939, аа amended, or of any directions issued thereunder, or is the holder of
a ration book or ration card for which such registration is not necessary ..."
4. Tanzania: Violence Against Women Refugees by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (2000)
"UNHCR then intervened to help her recover her belongings, by holding on to her
husband's ration card until he returned them. She said he beat her because ..."
5. Nutrition and Development by Margaret R. Biswas, Per Pinstrup-Andersen (1985)
"Statutory rationing, which exists in six urban areas, is based on the premise
that each resident is to have a ration card which entitles him to purchase at ..."
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