DOLE

Meaning of DOLE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

public

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I want to be on the public dole .

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In some ways, and for some people, government has turned into a kind of public dole .

■ NOUN

money

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It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.

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A freeze on dole money and invalidity benefit is also being considered.

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I was having to survive on my dole money - which seemed to disappear the day I got it.

queue

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Dragged off the dole queue and hating every minute.

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The monthly publication of the unemployment figures provides a depressing barometer of the dole queue .

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So here's the proof that not all one-miss blunders end up on the dole queue .

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Secondary school classes have also grown, with more pupils staying on rather than face the dole queue .

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Leaving work and consigning yourself to the dole queue is obviously risky.

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Why does not he admit that since last year's Budget more than 500,000 people have been added to the dole queue ?

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Cash reserves have been savaged by massive rises in social security benefits because of ever-growing dole queues and interest repayments on debt.

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Whitehall officials were unable to explain it fully and refused to speculate when dole queues will start shortening.

■ VERB

get

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He points out that now she is cohabiting the only benefit she will get is the basic dole .

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He signed a form applying for benefits and will get his first dole cheque in the post within three days.

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Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole .

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I said the bankers were the first to go on the dole .

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He left school and went straight on the dole , like Derek probably will.

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Nature is joining the human race and going on the dole .

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She left the riding stables and went on the dole .

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I stopped taking my testosterone tablets and went back on the dole again.

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If they lose their jobs, instead of going on the dole they have to leave the country.

join

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Reverend Leonard Hendry has joined the dole queues in Tewkesbury.

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Tory polices do not work and the tragedy is that, in Britain every month, 30,000 people join the dole .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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I brace myself for the sight of the posters, unrolled and exposed, and the dole cards.

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I said the bankers were the first to go on the dole .

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I want to be on the public dole .

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I was on the dole then, getting £5.50 a week and the rent was £2.50.

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If the unemployed learned to be better managers ... I fancy it would not be long before the dole was docked correspondingly.

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She was an alien in the country with no dole to fall back on, didn't have much money.

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Surely they didn't collect dole cheques from the society they so obviously rejected?

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Surely this term should be used to describe some one who lives and works - or draws the dole - in Scouserpool?

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

out

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Before it came to power Labour hinted thatit would stop doling out money to business.

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Its board has adopted a streamlined procedure for doling out emergency loans.

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There's also a cheese and bread counter, and a section doling out grim cold cuts.

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So to save costs -- many millions a year, experts say -- the company stopped doling out awards.

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Some lectures the old boy used to dole out .

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It must also dole out a level of punishment so severe that it precludes any further response.

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They've been doling out compassion long before the late Princess Diana invented it.

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Local officials traditionally lavish entertainment on national officials who dole out money for public works and other local projects.