Definition: 1. Money paid by the state to unemployed people. 2. A share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given. 3. Money received from the state.
Use 'dole' in a sentence:
1. 'They wanted to stop my dole money for those days.' — 'Charming!'
2. I had to sign on the dole on Monday.
3. It is very difficult to save while on the dole but I am determined.
4. An important feature of the employment system was Work for the Dole.
5. He's been on the dole for a year.
6. They stuck by Dole.
7. When it comes time to dole out money, you'll be first on the VIP's mind.
8. In 1990, Dole encouraged Bair to run for an open House seat in Kansas.
9. Love is freely given, not doled out on demand.
10. Two years later he is flat broke and on the dole.
11. Dole and I had a good talk, but I left the meeting unsure of what our relationship, or his agenda, would be.
12. Dole had already said the same thing.
13. Dole and Evans disagree on many aspects of the new policy.
14. Bob Dole seemed less than enthusiastic about the proposed move.
15. I worry about what we're giving up for the corporate dole.
16. The government is changing the rules for claiming dole.
17. That means two individuals are off the Dole and paying tax.
18. In front of Dole, Armey, Daschle, Gephardt, Panetta, and Al Gore, he said frankly, We made a mistake.
19. There are also many unanswered questions over how to dole out the money.
20. In America, Ireland and Spain, the collapse of labour-intensive construction swelled the dole queues.
21. The number of jobless Britons claiming the dole is now about 960, 000.
22. I spent years on the dole trying to get bands together and I never worried about money then.
23. It's not easy living on the dole.
24. I got out my wallet and began to dole out the money.
25. What is different this time is the way the money is being doled out.
26. The government simply left the unemployed to rot on the dole.
27. But they also dole out punishments for "moral offences".
28. T-shirts are a nice little earner and it's better than the dole.
29. Some people able and willing to work were forced to accept doles.
30. By coincidence, Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich were on the morning news programs.
31. Many scrollbars are quite parsimonious in doling out information to users.
32. Instead, she doles out small investments as a company needs capital.
33. The number of jobless Britons claiming the dole is now about 960,000.
34. I read she was on the dole when she wrote the first book.
35. The country's economic recovery is an illusion; many people are on the dole.
36. Don't dole out money to any kind of recruiter or sign a contract agreeing to do so.
37. Your own plan is to switch industries and continents from a precarious position on the dole.
38. Would we know with Bob Dole?
39. Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot on the dole.
40. By contrast, Senator Dole won big.
41. Whatever you called him, Dole was suddenly king of the hill.
42. But fear of the dole may lead to an increase in precautionary saving.
43. When it came time for me to marry, my father decided to dole out some wisdom.
44. Every year, doctors in England dole out 31 million prescriptions for antidepressants alone.
45. Previously, China's government would dole out funds to several well-known state-owned companies.
46. They have accepted doles.
47. By the end of the year, only 9% were still on the dole; average household income increased by 17%.
48. To his credit, a few years later Dole apologized to me.
49. He had to live in the uncertainty on the dole.
50. I tried to call Miss dole, but the line was busy.
51. If you work without signing off the dole you are breaking the law.
52. Many families are living on the dole since the strike.
53. Other benefits such as dole money could be frozen and there will be a huge push to weed out fiddlers.
54. The Government cannot expect graduates to twiddle their thumbs on the dole.
55. We could all be in the dole queue on Monday.
56. Another 29,100 people have joined the dole queue.
57. I go back on the dole when the shooting season's finished.
58. Middle-class families see their graduate offspring on the dole queue and wonder why they bothered paying school fees.
