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dose noun
/dəʊs/
/doʊs/ n [C] Definition
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a measured amount of something such as medicinea high/low dose
a dose of penicillin
The label says to take one dose three times a day.
Twenty or thirty of these pills would be a lethal dose (= enough to kill you).
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an amount or experience of something bad or unpleasantThe government received a hefty dose of bad news this week.
She's got a nasty dose of flu.
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UK slang a case of gonorrhea (= a disease of the sexual organs) (Definition of dose noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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