noun, verb
noun [sing.] (usually the dole) (BrE, informal) money paid by the state to unemployed people:
He's been on the dole (= without a job) for a year. * It is feared the government might change the rules for claiming dole. * lengthening dole queues * We could all be in the dole queue on Monday (= have lost our jobs).
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
dole sth<->out (to sb) to give out an amount of food, money, etc. to a number of people in a group
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dole is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dole a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dole is tagged as verb.
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