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Meanings of dole (doled) in English

Money received from the state.

Usage of doled in English
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Even Whistler doled out a few kind words for his early work.
Anno Dracula
2
Wang doled out construction projects in return for the bribes, it said.
Reuters
3
At the rate they are doled out, they will surely asphyxiate us.
NY Magazine
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She doled out her products very economically during the winter and spring.
With the Procession
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The pensions doled out to blinded soldiers would not keep them alive.
Now It Can Be Told
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There, access to the terminals was doled out according to academic rank.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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She doled out jam with a careful hand and a measuring eye.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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From his store Ootah silently doled out allotments until starvation confronted him.
The Eternal Maiden
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He said what was currently doled out was done in a humiliating way.
Reuters
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The payments will be doled out on March 25, a company spokeswoman said.
Reuters
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The Universal is too great to be measured and doled in that way.
The Conquest of Fear
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Some of those programs doled out far more than the traditional discount window.
Reuters
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The main subsidy, the single farm payment, is doled out by the hectare.
The Guardian
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Her point was that the entire supply should be doled out to men.
The new yorker
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Another clerk doled out plex cards bearing what John understood to be numbers.
Knight of the Demon Queen
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Soon the sums thus miserably raised were as miserably doled away.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common