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Dole Out

Definition: Dole Out

Dole Out

Verb

1. Administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dole Out

Synonyms: administer (v), allot (v), deal (v), deal out (v), dish out (v), dispense (v), distribute (v), lot (v), mete out (v), parcel out (v), shell out (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dole Out

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Apportionment

Verb: apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.

Giving

Present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.

Parsimony

Verb: be parsimonious; Adjective: grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Dole Out

Language Translations for "dole out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ua ndaj të varfërve (dole), jap me pikatore. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, dispense, distribute, divide, hand out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

раздавам в малки количества, раздавам неохотно (dole). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vydávat (emit, give off, give out), rozdìlovat (deal, dispense, give out). (various references)

   

French

  

distribuer. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μοιράζω φειδωλώσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לחלק (apportion, dispense, distribute, divide, give out, hand out, parcel, part, partition, section, share, share out, sunder). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szûkmarkúan oszt szét valamit, kiporcióz (to measure out). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mencatukan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dosare (dose, measure out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oleday outay

   

Portuguese

  

distribuir (allocate, allot, deliver, dispart, dispense, distribute, give out, hand out, parcel, portion, serve, share, spread), racionar (allowance, ration). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

împãrţi cu zgârcenie. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раздавать (deal, dispense, distribute, give out, hand out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razdeliti (disjoin, divide, dole, fractionate, give out, hand out, part, pass out, piece out, portion, split), razdati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

distribuir para (hand out, ladle), dar limosna, partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, chop, cleave, come off, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, drive away, drive off, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, split up, start off, start out, tear, tear up, throw over, walk away), hacer reparto. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dela ut i småportioner. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ให้ทาน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

azar azar dağıtmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dole Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-o-t-u"

-1 letter: looted, louted, toledo, tooled.

-2 letters: looed, luted, outdo, outed, toled.

-3 letters: delt, dole, dolt, dote, duel, duet, leud, lode, loot, loud, lout, lude, lute, oleo, toed, told, tole, tolu, tool, tule.

-4 letters: del, doe, dol, dot, due, duo, eld, led, let, leu, loo, lot, ode, old, ole, oot, oud, out, ted, tel, tod, toe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outloved.

 

+2 letters: doubleton, outflowed, outfooled, outglowed, outhowled, outpolled, outrolled.

 

+3 letters: clubfooted, convoluted, devolution, doubletons, outbloomed, outplodded, outplotted, outscolded.

 

+4 letters: automobiled, buttonholed, demodulator, devolutions, footfaulted, foulmouthed, loudmouthed.

 

+5 letters: closemouthed, counterworld, demodulation, demodulators, depopulation, hemodilution, multicolored, outpopulated, surefootedly, uncontrolled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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