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noun dəʊldoʊl 1usually the doleBritish informal mass noun Benefit paid by the state to the unemployed. I was on the dole for three years as modifier my next dole cheque Example sentencesExamples - Our tax dollars get wasted on dole payments to businesses who then charge us more for the privilege of consuming the products we've already subsidised.
- Pocket money, dole or reduced pension does not stretch to these luxuries, since privatisation for profit precludes travel to and cost of entrance to these simple pleasures.
- The three lads topped up their dole cheques with some cash-in-hand building work for Alan's dad, a building contractor.
- However, he said he had declined the invitation because he would be attending a rally on September 30 to protest against cuts in dole payments to the elderly and disabled.
- Many poor families could not afford such activities as swimming classes for their children, especially after dole payments were slashed by 11 per cent last year.
- All these writers emphasise the resilience and diversity of unemployed protest, from the peaceful petitioning favoured by moderates to the mass resistance of anti-eviction struggles and dole strikes.
- Chinese medicine subsidy may be granted to elderly dole recipients.
- She said: ‘If he had had that first dole cheque on time my son might be alive today.’
- His bank at home transfers his dole money to a local bank here.
- She left a scribbled note, saying she was going downtown to cash her dole cheque.
- Its resistance was made possible not merely by its unionization but by the dole to the unemployed.
- Whole regions of the country went into serious decline, and unemployment and dole dependency skyrocketed.
- Unemployed and facing the dole queue, this enterprising young man decided to set up his own business.
- But the increasing number of low-income dole recipients shows that wages have generally stayed low and that its economy is not likely to fully recover in the short term.
- Those people going on the dole would have otherwise been employed and off the dole.
- The government has come under renewed attack after it said it would go ahead with cuts in dole payments to the disabled and elderly despite calls from a wide spectrum of the community to delay the reductions.
- A broadside has been issued at ‘the dole office’ for alleged harassment of people who want to claim dole.
- The allowances of able-bodied dole recipients was cut by this amount last October but those for the elderly and the disabled were spread over two phases, last October and on Friday.
- He was talking on Wednesday about plans by welfare groups to stage a protest against cuts in dole payments.
- Despite being laid off, workers are not yet entitled to any dole payments.
Synonyms unemployment benefit, state benefit, government benefit, benefit, benefit payments, social security, social security payments, public assistance allowance, allowance, welfare, insurance money, grant financial assistance Scottish the buroo, the broo - 1.1dated count noun A charitable gift of food, clothes, or money.
the customary dole was a tumblerful of rice Example sentencesExamples - On the other we have a party, which realises the importance of opening up our economic and trade frontiers and is happy to project India as a prosperous land, which does not require dole from the developed world anymore.
- Another institution of the municipality was the langarkhana, where money and grain doles were issued to the destitute once a week and clothes once a year.
- Sometimes people feel insulted to get doles from jeans-clad English-speaking urbane rich-kids.
- But his language mistakes were no barriers as kids and elders alike wanted to hear the man as he showered doles on them.
Synonyms gift, donation, offering, contribution, handout, presentation, bestowal
2literary A person's lot or destiny. death be his dole who worst maintains the strife
verb dəʊldoʊl [with object]dole something outDistribute shares of something. the scanty portions of food doled out to them Example sentencesExamples - These are fascinating, but could have been more so, had the author used them in a coherent narrative, rather than doling them out in snippets, rarely more than two pages long, to form an impressionistic collage.
- I get as many tickets as I can to each show I attend and dole them out to the uninitiated.
- A total of 40 tonnes of cornmeal was due to be handed out on the first day but aid officials could not confirm if the entire amount was doled out.
- The 2004 movie year doesn't officially end for two more months, when the Oscars are doled out.
- These clues are doled out slowly, often in half-overheard conversations or in a furtive glance or gesture.
- It is up to us to enact the regulation, oversight, and judgment necessary to insure that the correct rewards and punishments are doled out to the correct people.
- Gifts in the form of sweets, books, posters and cookies were doled out throughout the day!
- On the other hand, you need a lot of dividend income for this tax break to stimulate your personal economy, and companies are stingy doling dividends out.
- If landing rights were doled out by something resembling a market, this ‘help’ wouldn't be needed.
- The CEO did not specify who provided this advice and if the same advice was doled out to all 11 health boards.
- Firstly, research contracts are doled out on a ‘winner take all’ model, with a five year lifespan - so if a researcher or team misses out, they must survive on a shoestring for five years.
- Europe recognises regions rather than cities and, like it or not, that is how the cash is doled out.
- More than 1,000 sales force management awards and 8,000 support staff awards were doled out as a result.
- Before she took over, every girl in the school received an award of some sort: Commendations were doled out for such accomplishments as athletic achievement, an outstanding English essay, and improvement in math class.
- These raises will be doled out in eight quarterly payments starting in December 2002.
- In most cases, the free passes are doled out even without asking.
- Minimum rewards were doled out at totally random intervals, yet many of the subjects developed curious repetitive actions.
- They are less willing to swallow whatever medicine is doled out to them until they know what it is, what it does, and what alternative treatment is available.
- In the past, she's officiated at some of his games but doles out absolutely no favoritism.
- They will eventually be moved to a clean lab, where they will be doled out to researchers.
Synonyms deal out, share out, mete out, divide up, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, distribute, dispense, hand out, give out, pass out, pass round, issue, disburse informal dish out, dish up, divvy up
Origin Old English dāl 'division, portion, or share', of Germanic origin; related to deal1. The sense 'distribution of charitable gifts' dates from Middle English; the sense 'unemployment benefit' dates from the early 20th century. A dole was originally a division or share, which in the Middle Ages developed the sense of ‘gift’, particularly food, both senses surviving in modern English when we speak of doling out food to people. The dole, for unemployment benefits appears in the early 20th century. To deal (Old English) is closely related, but the sense of deal for a type of wood is Middle English from Middle Low German or Dutch dele ‘plank’.
Rhymes barcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, hole, Joel, knoll, kohl, mol, mole, Nicole, parol, parole, patrol, pole, poll, prole, rôle, roll, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, thole, Tirol, toad-in-the-hole, toll, troll, vole, whole noun dəʊldoʊl mass nounarchaic, literary 2rare count noun A flock of doves. a dole of doves adorned its tiled roof Example sentencesExamples - The flower looks like a dole of doves drinking when viewed from above.
- Millicent had declared pigeons too “filthy and ordinary” for her daughter's ball and so the exhausted party planners substituted a last-minute dole of doves.
- They see themselves as a healing dole of doves.
- The event took on a World War I theme culminating in the release of a dole of white doves.
- The event's show stopper was when the organisers released a dole of doves, white balloons and confetti from a helicopter as symbols of peace.
- The black grouping of lights look like a murder of crows and the white ones like a dole of doves flying above your head.
Origin Middle English: from Old French doel 'mourning', from popular Latin dolus, from Latin dolere 'grieve'. noundoʊldōl 1usually the doleBritish informal Benefit paid by the government to the unemployed. she is drawing on the dole Example sentencesExamples - Despite being laid off, workers are not yet entitled to any dole payments.
- Its resistance was made possible not merely by its unionization but by the dole to the unemployed.
- Unemployed and facing the dole queue, this enterprising young man decided to set up his own business.
- He was talking on Wednesday about plans by welfare groups to stage a protest against cuts in dole payments.
- She left a scribbled note, saying she was going downtown to cash her dole cheque.
- Our tax dollars get wasted on dole payments to businesses who then charge us more for the privilege of consuming the products we've already subsidised.
- The allowances of able-bodied dole recipients was cut by this amount last October but those for the elderly and the disabled were spread over two phases, last October and on Friday.
- All these writers emphasise the resilience and diversity of unemployed protest, from the peaceful petitioning favoured by moderates to the mass resistance of anti-eviction struggles and dole strikes.
- Those people going on the dole would have otherwise been employed and off the dole.
- A broadside has been issued at ‘the dole office’ for alleged harassment of people who want to claim dole.
- Whole regions of the country went into serious decline, and unemployment and dole dependency skyrocketed.
- But the increasing number of low-income dole recipients shows that wages have generally stayed low and that its economy is not likely to fully recover in the short term.
- However, he said he had declined the invitation because he would be attending a rally on September 30 to protest against cuts in dole payments to the elderly and disabled.
- The three lads topped up their dole cheques with some cash-in-hand building work for Alan's dad, a building contractor.
- Pocket money, dole or reduced pension does not stretch to these luxuries, since privatisation for profit precludes travel to and cost of entrance to these simple pleasures.
- The government has come under renewed attack after it said it would go ahead with cuts in dole payments to the disabled and elderly despite calls from a wide spectrum of the community to delay the reductions.
- Many poor families could not afford such activities as swimming classes for their children, especially after dole payments were slashed by 11 per cent last year.
- His bank at home transfers his dole money to a local bank here.
- She said: ‘If he had had that first dole cheque on time my son might be alive today.’
- Chinese medicine subsidy may be granted to elderly dole recipients.
Synonyms unemployment benefit, state benefit, government benefit, benefit, benefit payments, social security, social security payments, public assistance allowance, allowance, welfare, insurance money, grant - 1.1dated A charitable gift of food, clothes, or money.
Example sentencesExamples - On the other we have a party, which realises the importance of opening up our economic and trade frontiers and is happy to project India as a prosperous land, which does not require dole from the developed world anymore.
- Sometimes people feel insulted to get doles from jeans-clad English-speaking urbane rich-kids.
- But his language mistakes were no barriers as kids and elders alike wanted to hear the man as he showered doles on them.
- Another institution of the municipality was the langarkhana, where money and grain doles were issued to the destitute once a week and clothes once a year.
Synonyms gift, donation, offering, contribution, handout, presentation, bestowal
2literary A person's lot or destiny.
verbdoʊldōl [with object]dole something outDistribute shares of something. the scanty portions of food doled out to them Example sentencesExamples - Europe recognises regions rather than cities and, like it or not, that is how the cash is doled out.
- It is up to us to enact the regulation, oversight, and judgment necessary to insure that the correct rewards and punishments are doled out to the correct people.
- In most cases, the free passes are doled out even without asking.
- They will eventually be moved to a clean lab, where they will be doled out to researchers.
- On the other hand, you need a lot of dividend income for this tax break to stimulate your personal economy, and companies are stingy doling dividends out.
- Firstly, research contracts are doled out on a ‘winner take all’ model, with a five year lifespan - so if a researcher or team misses out, they must survive on a shoestring for five years.
- Before she took over, every girl in the school received an award of some sort: Commendations were doled out for such accomplishments as athletic achievement, an outstanding English essay, and improvement in math class.
- The 2004 movie year doesn't officially end for two more months, when the Oscars are doled out.
- I get as many tickets as I can to each show I attend and dole them out to the uninitiated.
- They are less willing to swallow whatever medicine is doled out to them until they know what it is, what it does, and what alternative treatment is available.
- If landing rights were doled out by something resembling a market, this ‘help’ wouldn't be needed.
- A total of 40 tonnes of cornmeal was due to be handed out on the first day but aid officials could not confirm if the entire amount was doled out.
- Minimum rewards were doled out at totally random intervals, yet many of the subjects developed curious repetitive actions.
- The CEO did not specify who provided this advice and if the same advice was doled out to all 11 health boards.
- These are fascinating, but could have been more so, had the author used them in a coherent narrative, rather than doling them out in snippets, rarely more than two pages long, to form an impressionistic collage.
- More than 1,000 sales force management awards and 8,000 support staff awards were doled out as a result.
- These clues are doled out slowly, often in half-overheard conversations or in a furtive glance or gesture.
- In the past, she's officiated at some of his games but doles out absolutely no favoritism.
- Gifts in the form of sweets, books, posters and cookies were doled out throughout the day!
- These raises will be doled out in eight quarterly payments starting in December 2002.
Synonyms deal out, share out, mete out, divide up, allocate, allot, apportion, assign, distribute, dispense, hand out, give out, pass out, pass round, issue, disburse
Phrases informal Registered as unemployed and receiving benefit from the government. Example sentencesExamples - It has advised us that there will be an increase in benefit payments as young people currently in training go on the dole.
- If the unemployment figures were to continue at this pace for an entire year, an extra 90,000 would be on the dole.
- She maintains that if family benefits are increased in the budget, many of these families will stop working and go on the dole.
- That some often live on the dole, unable to find work, only enhances their sense of estrangement.
- Because most of us in the house were either on the dole or working part-time, we were able to claim rent allowance from the local health board.
- I have worked since I was 15, I haven't been on the sick in over 25 years and I've only had two weeks on the dole in my life.
- He also pledged to increase the accommodation supplement to match the supplement received by those on the dole.
- Many of these positions are providing an alternative to a life on the dole for hundreds of people throughout the country.
- He said that he, his wife and two daughters lived on the dole.
- Evening classes were free then, if you were on the dole.
Origin Old English dāl ‘division, portion, or share’, of Germanic origin; related to deal. The sense ‘distribution of charitable gifts’ dates from Middle English; the sense ‘unemployment benefit’ dates from the early 20th century. noundoʊldōl literary, archaic Origin Middle English: from Old French doel ‘mourning’, from popular Latin dolus, from Latin dolere ‘grieve’. |