| 词汇 | dole |
| 释义 | dole noun[ S ] uk /dəʊl/ us /doʊl/ the doleUKinformal the money that the government gives to people who are unemployed: 失业救济金 on the dole Young people on (= receiving) the dole are often bored and frustrated.领失业救济金生活的年轻人常常感到百无聊赖，心灰意冷。 go on the doleIf I can't find any work within a month, I'll have to go on the dole.一个月内如果还找不到工作，我就得靠失业救济金生活了。 After the mines closed, my uncle spent the next ten years on the dole. Even though he was a graduate, he took a cleaning job rather than stay on the dole. Social security & state benefits AFDC anti-welfare basic income be on reliefidiom benefit family credit giro housing benefit income support means test means-tested sign (something) off social security social welfare UBI unemployment unemployment benefit universal basic income welfare welfare state You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unemployment the dole | Business Englishthe dole noun[ S ] ECONOMICS UKinformalukus(USwelfare) 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. doleadjective[ only before noun ] dole cheats Examples of doledole Once the building works ceased and doles were withdrawn, the refugees had to find other work in order to survive. And, he asks us to conclude, how like this second picture, of undeserved and damaging doles, is to our state welfare system today. It made more financial sense to pay a small dole to one pauper than to house their entire family in-doors. Charity accounts frequently displayed a response to increasing need that widened the recipient group while reducing the value of doles. By and large the recipients of the bread dole were old, with a high proportion of widows among them. They drew on village doles and other charitable resources. That role was necessary because the ' 'dole' ' supported the jobless indefinitely. During this period the amount spent on doles was generally around £7 a year. After 1810 further standardization took place and the 7s doles limited to those families with five children or more. There has been considerable discussion about the staying power of philanthropy and the motives behind funeral doles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although they constitute a right, some people regard these payments as charitable ' dole ' and resent having to depend on them. The number supported by weekly bread doles for most of the year leapt to 9 in 1571/1572 and 17 in 1588/1589. Why shouldn't they work for their dole payment? Are the lines "dole"/"drink" (7, 8) and "anear"/"away" (9,10) couplets? Interestingly, when after the reversion of the manor and lands in 1722 to the previous landowning family the new landlord publicly announced that he was restoring doles.! These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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