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Dictionary Results For "dole" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Pronunciation


Verb

dole

  1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out, small portions of a meagre resource.


Noun

  1. money or other goods given as charity
  2. In the Context of payment by the state to the unemployed
  3. :I get my dole paid twice a week.
  4. :I’ve been on the dole for two years now.
  5. sorrow or grief; dolour


Translations

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Czech

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Cs-dole.ogg


Adverb

dole

  1. down


Category:Czech adverbs

de:dole el:dole fr:dole io:dole hu:dole pl:dole ru:dole te:dole vi:dole tr:dole zh:dole

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dole \Dole\ (d[=o]l), n. [OE. deol, doel, dol, OF. doel, fr.
doloir to suffer, fr. L. dolere; perh. akin to dolare to
hew.]
grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic]
[1913 Webster]

And she died.
So that day there was dole in Astolat. -- Tennyson.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dole \Dole\, n. [L. dolus: cf. F. dol.] (Scots Law)
See Dolus.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dole \Dole\, n. [AS. d[=a]l portion; same word as d[=ae]l. See
Deal.]
1. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
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At her general dole,
Each receives his ancient soul. -- Cleveland.
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2. That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a
scanty share or allowance.
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3. Alms; charitable gratuity or portion.
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So sure the dole, so ready at their call,
They stood prepared to see the manna fall. --Dryden.
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Heaven has in store a precious dole. --Keble.
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4. A boundary; a landmark. --Halliwell.
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5. A void space left in tillage. --[Prov. Eng.]
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Dole beer, beer bestowed as alms. [Obs.]

Dole bread, bread bestowed as alms. [Obs.]

Dole meadow, a meadow in which several persons have a
common right or share.

on the dole, receiving financial assistance from a
governmental agency, such as a welfare agency; as, after
his unemployment benefits ran out, his family was on the
dole for a year.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Dole \Dole\ (d[=o]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doled (d[=o]ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. Doling.]
To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to
deal out scantily or grudgingly.
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The supercilious condescension with which even his
reputed friends doled out their praises to him. --De
Quincey.
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WordNet dole
n 1: a share of money or food or clothing that has been
charitably given
2: money received from the state [syn: pogy, pogey]
Moby Dictionary
accord
, ace , adjunct , administer , administration , adversity ,
affliction
, afford , aid , alimony , allocate , allocation , allot ,
allotment
, allow , allowance , alms , alms fee , anguish , annuity ,
apportion
, apportionment , assistance , atom , award , benefit , bestow ,
bestow on
, big end , bigger half , bit , bite , bounty , budget , care ,
charity
, chunk , collection , commission , communicate , compensation ,
component
, confer , contingent , contretemps , contribution ,
cross section
, cut , dab , deal , deal out , depletion allowance ,
destiny
, detachment , detail , disbursal , disburse , disbursement ,
dish out
, dispensation , dispense , disperse , dispersion , disposal ,
dispose
, disposition , distribute , distribution , dividend , division ,
dole out
, doling , doling out , donate , donation , donative , dot ,
dram
, dribble , driblet , dwarf , end , equal share , extend , farthing ,
fate
, fellowship , financial assistance , fleck , flyspeck , fork out ,
fraction
, fragment , gift , gift with , give , give freely , give out ,
giving out
, gobbet , grain , grant , grant-in-aid , granule , gratuity ,
grief
, groat , guaranteed annual income , hair , half , half rations ,
halver
, hand out , hand-out , handful , handout , heap , heartache ,
heartbreak
, help , help to , helping , impart , installment , interest ,
iota
, issuance , issue , item , jot , largesse , lavish , let have ,
little
, little bit , lot , measure , measure out , meed ,
mere subsistence
, mess , mete , mete out , minim , minimum , minutiae ,
mischance
, mishap , mite , modicum , moiety , molecule , mote , nutshell ,
offer
, offering , offertory , old-age insurance , ounce , parcel ,
parcel out
, part , particle , particular , pass around ,
passing around
, pay out , paying out , pebble , pecuniary aid ,
pension
, percentage , piece , pinch , pittance , point , portion ,
portion out
, pour , present , price support , proffer , proportion ,
public assistance
, public welfare , quadrant , quantum , quarter ,
quota
, rain , rake-off , random sample , ration , regret , relief ,
remainder
, render , retirement benefits , rue , sample , sampling ,
scholarship
, scrimption , scruple , section , sector , segment , serve ,
share
, share out , shell out , short allowance , short commons ,
shower
, slice , slip , small share , smidgen , smitch , snow , speck ,
spoon out
, spoonful , spot , stake , starvation wages , stipend , stock ,
subdivision
, subgroup , subscription , subsidization , subsidy ,
subspecies
, subvention , support , tax benefit , tender , thimbleful ,
tiny bit
, tithe , tittle , tragedy , trifling amount , trivia ,
votive offering
, vouchsafe , welfare , welfare aid , welfare payments ,
whit
, woe , yield


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