See dole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1690, John Dryden, Eleonora:",
"text": "So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.",
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"ref": "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Captain Devereux’s Fiddle Plays a Prelude to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 307–308:",
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"feminine"
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"text": "c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising\nAt her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul."
},
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"ref": "1827, [John Keble], “Seventh Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 26:",
"text": "Go not away, thou weary soul: / Heaven has in store a precious dole / Even on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, [...]",
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"text": "I get my dole paid twice a week.",
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"text": "I've been on the dole for two years now.",
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{
"ref": "1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington):",
"text": "So, we are being fobbed off by second-rate American junk by smart aleck salesman from Pittsburgh while British factories stand empty and British workmen queue up for the dole.",
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{
"ref": "1986, Morrissey, Johnny Marr (lyrics and music), “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others”, in The Queen is Dead, performed by The Smiths:",
"text": "From the ice age to the dole age / There is but one concern / I have just discovered",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, page 107:",
"text": "The men sit because they′re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world’s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.",
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{
"ref": "1997, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys: Australia, page 67:",
"text": "The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002, “Has It Come to This?”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets:",
"text": "Sort your shit out, then roll / Sex, drugs, and on the dole / Some men rise, some men fall",
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"Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits."
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"(informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits."
],
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"word": "pancrack"
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{
"word": "pogey"
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"_dis1": "4 1 91 2 2",
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"roman": "pómošt pri bezrabótica",
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"tags": [
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"word": "werkloosheidsuitkering"
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},
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"sense": "unemployment benefit",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "Stütze"
},
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"tags": [
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"plural"
],
"word": "atvinnuleysisbætur"
},
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},
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"ref": "1559, “Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty, Concerning both the Clergy and Laity, of This Realm, Published Anno Domini Mdlix. being the First Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth”, in Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], published 1684, →OCLC, paragraph 19, page 73:",
"text": "Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "подая́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podáčka",
"sense": "money or goods given as charity",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пода́чка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "money or goods given as charity",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "milostinja"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pómošt pri bezrabótica",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "по́мощ при безрабо́тица"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "podpora"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "podpora v nezaměstnanosti"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "werkloosheidsuitkering"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "steun"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "dop"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"word": "tuki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"word": "työttömyyspäiväraha"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"word": "työttömyysavustus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"word": "assedics"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Stütze"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "atvinnuleysisbætur"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "posóbije",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "посо́бие"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "posóbije po bezrabótice",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "посо́бие по безрабо́тице"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "naknada za nezaposlenost"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "socialna pomoč"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unemployment benefit",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"masculine"
],
"word": "paro"
}
],
"word": "dole"
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"word": "doleful"
},
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"word": "dolesome"
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"word": "dolewave"
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"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, Le Morte Darthur, Book IX, Chapter xvii, leaf 183r:",
"text": "Syr said sir gyngalyn I wote not what knyȝt he was / but wel I wote that he sygheth and maketh grete dole.\n\"Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole.\"",
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"ref": "a. 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King:",
"text": "But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 46:",
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"ipa": "/dəʊl/",
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"ipa": "/dol/",
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}
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