dole
IPA: dˈoʊɫ
noun
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
- A boundary; a landmark.
- (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
- (archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
- A surname.
- (trademark) Dole Food Company, a U.S. agricultural multinational corporation.
- Dole Constituency, a parliamentary constituency in Zanzibar.
- A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
- (Philippines) Acronym of Department of Labor and Employment.
verb
- To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
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Examples of "dole" in Sentences
- The movie was a doleful drama.
- The movie had a doleful theme.
- They disliked the doleful sound.
- They played a doleful piece of music.
- Elizabeth Dole is the chair of the NRSC.
- He studied law at the University of Dole.
- They thought the musice was quite doleful.
- So let's continue the doleful theme, then.
- They set up the doleful noise of the sound.
- He is a doleful character with a quick temper.
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