deration
Definition
Verb (transitive): - To remove or end the system of rationing for (a commodity or resource); to cease to restrict the supply of something that was previously controlled by rationing.
Usage Examples
- (To stop rationing sugar.)
- (To remove rationing restrictions on petrol.)
Advanced Usage
- "to deration a commodity": to officially stop limiting the quantity of a product that people are allowed to buy.
- The economic recovery enabled the ministry to deration bread and milk. (The ministry removed the rationing system for those items.)
- "derationed goods": goods that are no longer subject to rationing.
- After the announcement, derationed goods became available in shops without coupons. (Goods that are now freely sold.)
Variants and Related Words
- Derationing (noun): the act or process of ending rationing.
- The derationing of meat took place gradually over several months. (The process of removing meat rationing.)
- Ration (verb/noun): to limit the supply of something; a fixed allowance.
- During the crisis, the government had to ration fuel. (To control distribution.)
Synonyms
- Decontrol: to remove official controls on (a product or activity).
- The decontrol of prices followed the deration of food. (Similar meaning, but broader.)
- Liberalize: to remove restrictions on trade or supply.
- The market was liberalized after the war, leading to deration. (To make free from regulation.)
Phrasal Verbs
- Phase out: to gradually end a system or practice.
- The authorities began to phase out rationing, effectively derationing products. (To gradually remove rationing.)
Related Idioms
- Take off the leash: to remove restrictions or controls.
- With the new policy, the government took off the leash on consumer goods, effectively derationing them. (To allow free access.)