Usually means: Government-provided unemployment or welfare benefits.
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  1. Dole, dole, the dole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Dole, dole, dole, the dole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dole, dole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dole, the dole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dole, dole: Wordnik
  7. dole, the dole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DOLE, Dole, dole: Wiktionary
  9. dole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dole, dole: Dictionary.com
  13. dole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dole (Jura), Dole (surname), Dole, The dole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dole: Rhymezone
  19. Dole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dole: Free Dictionary
  22. dole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Dole, dole: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Dole: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dole: Legal dictionary

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  1. dole: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOLE: Acronym Finder
  2. dole: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dole: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See doled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
noun:  Money or other goods given as charity.
noun:  Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
noun:  (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
noun:  A boundary; a landmark.
noun:  (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
noun:  (archaic) A sorrow or grief; dolour.
noun:  (law, Scotland) Dolus.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (trademark) Dole Food Company, a U.S. agricultural multinational corporation.
noun:  Dole Constituency, a parliamentary constituency in Zanzibar.
noun:  A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
noun:  (Philippines) Acronym of Department of Labor and Employment.

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