dole
noun
[ dəʊl ]
• benefit paid by the state to the unemployed.
• "I was on the dole for three years"
Similar:
unemployment benefit,
state benefit,
government benefit,
benefit,
benefit payments,
social security,
social security payments,
public assistance allowance,
allowance,
welfare,
insurance money,
grant,
financial assistance,
the buroo,
the broo,
• a person's lot or destiny.
• "death be his dole who worst maintains the strife"
dole
verb
• distribute shares of something.
• "the scanty portions of food doled out to them"
Similar:
deal out,
share out,
mete out,
divide up,
allocate,
allot,
apportion,
assign,
distribute,
dispense,
hand out,
give out,
pass out,
pass round,
issue,
disburse,
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.
dole
noun
• sorrow; mourning.
• a flock of doves.
• "a dole of doves adorned its tiled roof"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French doel ‘mourning’, from popular Latin dolus, from Latin dolere ‘grieve’.
