Definitions for doles

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doles dole

Spelling: [dohl]

IPA: /doʊl/

Doles is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in doles (delos).

Definitions for doles

noun

1. a portion or allotment of money, food, etc., especially as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance.
2. a dealing out or distributing, especially in charity.
3. a form of payment to the unemployed instituted by the British government in 1918.
4. any similar payment by a government to an unemployed person.
5. Archaic. one's fate or destiny.
6. grief or sorrow; lamentation.
7. Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
8. Sanford Ballard, 1844–1926, U.S. politician and jurist in Hawaii: president of Republic of Hawaii 1894–98; first territorial governor 1900–03.

Idioms

1. on the dole, receiving payment from the government, as relief:

verb (used with object)

1. to distribute in charity.
2. to give out sparingly or in small quantities (usually followed by out):

Origin of doles

before 1000; Middle English dol, Old English gedāl sharing; cf. deal¹

Examples for doles

But I hope enough Kansans remember what Roberts did to dole when the latter was counting on him most.

A month before the Ethics Committee vote that McConnell boasts about today, he and dole were publicly defending Packwood.

Do not dole out money to your wife as though she were a beggar.

I was also involved in the origins of the dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University.

But he fished out a dole, though he was vexed at the injury to the supper.

dole sunlight into his room by degrees; and when he can bear it, drench him with it.

The other bade them measure out the supplies, "Pray, dole them out."

Nothing can pacify him but Mrs. Allen's notice and a dole from her hand.

These labels matter, but so does our over-zealous urge to dole them out and endlessly dwell on them.

“There can be no question that the trendiest trend of our popular culture is the return of drug use,” dole said.