rationable
Suitable for being rationed.
Adjective not comparable
- Suitable for being rationed.
- Stocks fell 60 percent in two months to 35000 tons of rationable meat. - 2002, Kevin Smith, Conflict Over Convoys:
Origin
From ration + -able. Piecewise doublet of reasonable.
Adjective archaic
- Synonym of rational or reasonable.
- Instinctive drives are, in this sense, rationable; they are admitted, by the mature individual, to influence on his behavior only on condition of contributing to the going program of action. - 1952 December, William...
Synonyms: rational or reasonable
Origin
From Middle English racionable, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis. Doublet of reasonable.