dole out
verb
doled out; doling out; doles out
transitive verb
1
: to give or deliver in small portions
2
: dish out
Synonyms
- administer
- allocate
- apportion
- deal (out)
- dispense
- distribute
- hand out
- mete (out)
- parcel (out)
- portion
- prorate
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Word History
First Known Use
1749, in the meaning defined at sense 1
doling out
verb
as in distributing
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals she doles out office supplies as if she were paying for them out of her own pocket Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- distributing
- dispensing
- handing out
- providing
- dividing
- allocating
- parcelling (out)
- administering
- parceling (out)
- meting (out)
- supplying
- dealing (out)
- dishing out
- donating
- prorating
- apportioning
- portioning
- assigning
- furnishing
- sharing
- splitting
- issuing
- sharing (out)
- chipping in
- dolloping (out)
- measuring (out)
- divvying (up)
- contributing
- spreading
- allotting
- circulating
- proportioning
- redistributing
- rationing
- disbursing
- disseminating
- lotting
- scattering
- parting
- appropriating
- bestowing
- setting
- pledging
- allowing
- dispersing
- admeasuring
- reapportioning
- reallocating
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- depriving (of)
- denying
- refusing
- withholding
- rejecting
- declining
- misallocating
- niggling (out)
- pinching
- skimping
- begrudging
- disallowing
- stinting