dole

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verb

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doles

V_ing/Gerund

doling

V_ed/pp

doled

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

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

doles

1.
Money or other goods given as charity.
2.
Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
3.
(informal)Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
I get my dole paid twice a week.
I've been on the dole for two years now.
Đồng nghĩa: pancrack, pogey
4.
A boundary; a landmark.
5.
(British, dialectal)A void space left in tillage.
6.
(archaic, uncountable)A sorrow or grief; dolour.
7.
(Scotland, uncountable)(law, Scotland) Dolus.
8.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of dhole (“Asian wild dog”).

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From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (portion, share, division, allotment), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (part, deal), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (part, watershed). Cognate with dola, дѣлити divide. More at deal. late 12th c. The verb is mid-15th c.