rationing

rationing
    n 1: the act of rationing; "during the war the government
         imposed rationing of food and gasoline"
    

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "rationing":
      apportionment, arrest, arrestation, budgeting, check, constraint,
      control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment,
      cutting, cutting the pie, deceleration, dividing, division, divvy,
      hindrance, inhibition, injunction, interdict, legal restraint,
      monopoly, parceling, partition, partitioning, portioning,
      prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rein,
      repartition, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation,
      retrenchment, self-control, sharing, sharing out, slicing,
      slowing down, splitting, tariff wall, thought control