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the dole
noun [S] UK informal (US welfare) ECONOMICSDefinition
› the money that unemployed people receive from the government: Workers, in their countless thousands, were facing the dole.
on the dole › unemployed and receiving money from the government: He spent eighteen months on the dole.
dole adjective [only before noun] › dole cheats(Definition of the dole noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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