"dole queue" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "dole queues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "dole queue (plural dole queues)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 8, “Network News: HS2 jobs boost - but skills shortage a concern”, in RAIL, number 939, page 16",
          "text": "It has taken people off the dole queue, and its online jobseekers board is updated daily.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38",
          "text": "Wadebridge area railwaymen were reported in the local press as \"worried\", while National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) Wadebridge branch secretary W J Hambly believed \"the rail closures will mean dole queues at the Labour Exchange for many\".",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Historically a queue to receive the dole (unemployment benefit), now used in reference to the number of people who are unemployed and claiming state benefit."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "unemployment benefit",
          "unemployment benefit"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) Historically a queue to receive the dole (unemployment benefit), now used in reference to the number of people who are unemployed and claiming state benefit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dole queue"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dole queues",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "dole queue (plural dole queues)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 8, “Network News: HS2 jobs boost - but skills shortage a concern”, in RAIL, number 939, page 16",
          "text": "It has taken people off the dole queue, and its online jobseekers board is updated daily.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38",
          "text": "Wadebridge area railwaymen were reported in the local press as \"worried\", while National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) Wadebridge branch secretary W J Hambly believed \"the rail closures will mean dole queues at the Labour Exchange for many\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Historically a queue to receive the dole (unemployment benefit), now used in reference to the number of people who are unemployed and claiming state benefit."
      ],
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        [
          "unemployment benefit",
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        ]
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        "(UK) Historically a queue to receive the dole (unemployment benefit), now used in reference to the number of people who are unemployed and claiming state benefit."
      ],
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        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dole queue"
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