Controlleddistribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically inwartime.
1940 July, “Notes and News: Paper Control and the "Railway Magazine"”, inRailway Magazine, page417:
The drasticrationing of paper enforced by the paper control, has made it necessary for us to adapt ourselves to the altered conditions.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, inRAIL, number978, page51:
After petrolrationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
