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    dole
    [dōl]
    noun
    dole (noun) · the dole (noun) · doles (plural noun)
    1. BRITISH ENGLISH
      informal
      (the dole)
      benefit paid by the government to the unemployed:
      "they are receiving the dole"
      • dated
        a charitable gift of food, clothes, or money:
        "the customary dole was a tumblerful of rice"
    2. literary
      a person's lot or destiny:
      "death be his dole who worst maintains the strife"
    verb
    (dole something out)
    dole (verb) · doles (third person present) · doled (past tense) · doled (past participle) · doling (present participle)
    1. distribute shares of something:
      "the scanty portions of food doled out to them"
    Origin
    Old English dāl ‘division, portion, or share’, of Germanic origin; related to deal. The sense ‘distribution of charitable gifts’ dates from Middle English; the sense ‘unemployment benefit’ dates from the early 20th century.
    dole
    [dōl]
    noun
    archaic
    literary
    dole (noun)
    1. sorrow; mourning.
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French doel ‘mourning’, from popular Latin dolus, from Latin dolere ‘grieve’.
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