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41Dole Air Race — The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was a tragic air race to cross the Pacific Ocean from northern California to the Territory of Hawaii in August 1927. Of the 15 18 entrant airplanes, 11 were certified to compete but three crashed… …
42dole — 1 noun (U) BrE 1 money given by the government in Britain to people who are unemployed: be/go on the dole (=be or become unemployed and receive money from the government): Kevin was on the dole for a year before he got a job. 2 the dole queue a)… …
43dole — 1. n. & v. n. 1 (usu. prec. by the) Brit. colloq. benefit claimable by the unemployed from the State. 2 a charitable distribution. b a charitable (esp. sparing, niggardly) gift of food, clothes, or money. 3 archaic one s lot or destiny. v.tr.… …
44out of work — adjective not having a job idle carpenters jobless transients many people in the area were out of work • Syn: ↑idle, ↑jobless • Similar to: ↑unemployed …
45dole something out — DEAL OUT, share out, divide up, allocate, allot, distribute, dispense, hand out, give out, dish out/up; informal divvy up. → dole …
46dole — I [dəʊl] verb dole sth out II the dole [dəʊl] noun [singular] British money that people who do not have a job get from the government She s been on the dole (= getting government money) for over a year.[/ex] …
47dole — 1. verb To distribute in small amounts; to share out, small portions of a meagre resource. 2. noun a) money or other goods given as charity I get my dole paid twice a week. b) payment by the state to the unemployed …
48dole-bludger — n Australian a person who claims unemployment pay which they are not entitled to, a dole scrounger . This common term is some times extended to encompass any idle or shiftless person. ► Newspapers are always whingeing about the dole bludgers.… …
49dole — dole1 noun 1》 (often in phr. on the dole) Brit. informal benefit paid by the state to the unemployed. ↘dated a charitable gift. 2》 literary a person s lot or destiny. verb (dole something out) distribute something. Origin OE dāl division,… …
50dole something out — Syn: deal out, share out, divide up, allocate, distribute, dispense, hand out, give out, dish out …
