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Meaning dole meaning

What does dole mean?
Definitions in simple English

dole Noun

— A dole is money given as charity or welfare to someone who is poor. The closing of the steel plant put a hundred families on the dole.

dole Verb

— When you dole something out, you distribute a product to a large number of people, often free of charge. The Union Station Foundation doled out 1,000 free turkeys to needy families over the holidays.

dole

— noun a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given — noun money received from the state

Synonyms dole synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dole?

dole English » English

handout relief pogy pogey woe weeping unemployment compensation unemployment benefit support succor sorrow share relief payment relief fund public charity mourning mete lamentation grief grant fate destiny contribution charity benefit assist alms allowance aid

Topics dole topics

What do people use dole to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance

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Conjugation dole conjugation

How do you conjugate dole?

dole · verb

Examples dole examples

How do I use dole in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

And I shall be all right on the dole, won't I.
But if you start interfering in my personal affairs. I'll go back to America and live on the dole.
Dole out a scoop of sand for each portion.
That's what Gooper'll dole out to you when they freeze you out.
Without murders, you'd be on the dole.
When I got out of the filthy Dole asylum, I wanted to see blood flow everywhere.
I want everyone to know I was bitten by a rabid dog when I was 16 and my blood was poisoned by the cures, and by my poor treatment at the asylum of Dole, asylum of destruction and death.
The family of those kids and that Lovelass, poor old bugger, got out of the nick,.spent 6 months on the dole, became a tramp and was finally knocked flat by a bus.
So, we are being fobbed off with second rate American junk by smart Aleck salesmen from Pittsburgh while British factories stand empty and British workmen queue up for the dole.
The dole, Bernard.
With a degree in maths and another in astrophysics, it was either that or back to the dole on Monday.
On the other hand, we don't claim dole money, social security, supplementary benefit do we, eh, eh?
If you're on the dole, go and see Rol!
It's clever to laugh when three million people are on the dole?
Now hightail out of here and behave yourself or I'll have the county take you and all your relatives off the dole.
You'll dole it out a little at a time.
With a defeated joy. in equal scale weighing delight and dole.
You couldn't get the cash without Kosterman asking questions, so you decided to dole out the jewellery.
Dole, hit the pavement.
Take them off the dole and put them to work. That's what I'll do.
As you fellows will all be out on the dole, perhaps we can strike a deal right now, hmm?
She has a headache, and I'II go on the dole.
You dole out pieces of your past. and I'm supposed to be grateful for your trust.
Condemn immorality dole out absolutions for mea-culpas.
Darling, a plot to dole out is surely not in Spain's Square!
Pretty soon we'll be on the dole!
That's it, then they all can go on the dole!
Sign on. The dole.
Pay me back next dole cheque.
I'm unemployed, got to go on the dole.
Imagine the faces when I walk into that dole office.
I'm on fifteen bob a week on the dole.
Yes, I'm so glad I got on Jackson's bandwagon instead of Dole.
Dole is just too.
Earlier reports placed him at the home of Senator Robert Dole.

News and current affairs

The idea was to get people off the dole and back to work.
The relatively generous dole and the prospect of high taxes once in work merely reduces the incentive to take low-paid jobs.
After the relief effort, this complex human balance was replaced by a cash economy, and the power brokers became those who could dole out the rare, precious petrol.
The federal government no longer has billions of dollars to dole out to foreign governments, while China is far more centralized and less beholden to its taxpayers.

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