dole

noun

/dəʊl/

[singular]

(usually the dole)

(British English, informal)

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money paid by the state to unemployed people失业救济金
- on the dole He's been on the dole (= without a job) for a year.他领失业救济金已一年了。
- The changes will affect about 80 per cent of those receiving the dole.这些变化将影响大约80%领取失业救济金的人。
- There have been calls to increase dole payments.有人呼吁增加失业救济金。
- We could all be in the dole queue on Monday (= have lost our jobs).我们都可能在星期一站在领取失业救济金的队伍里。
compare benefit (2)
Collocations Unemployment
Unemployment失业Losing your job失业
- lose your job失业
- (British English) become/be made redundant被裁减
- be offered/take voluntary redundancy/early retirement被要求／选择自愿裁退／提前退休
- face/be threatened with dismissal/(British English) the sack/(British English) compulsory redundancy面临被解职／被裁／强制裁员；受到解职／被裁／强制裁员的威胁
- dismiss/fire/ (especially British English) sack an employee/a worker/a manager解雇雇员／工人／经理
- lay off staff/workers/employees解雇员工／工人／雇员
- (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English) retrench workers缩减人员
- cut/reduce/downsize/slash the workforce裁减员工
- (British English) make staff/workers/employees redundant裁员
Being unemployed失业；待业；下岗
- be unemployed/out of work/out of a job失业
- seek/look for work/employment找工作
- be on/collect/draw/get/receive (both British English) unemployment benefit/jobseeker’s allowance领取失业补助金
- be/go/live/sign (British English, informal) on the dole领取失业救济金
- claim/draw/get (British English, informal) the dole领取失业救济金
- be on/qualify for (North American English) unemployment (compensation)领取／有资格领取失业补偿金
- be/go/live/depend (North American English) on welfare靠社会保障金过活
- collect/receive (North American English) welfare领取社会保障金
- combat/tackle/cut/reduce unemployment防止／解决／减少失业
Extra Examples
- Many had come off the dole and set up their own small businesses.许多人不再靠领取失业救济金生活，自己做起了小生意。
- School leavers were joining the dole queue every day.每天都有离校生加入领取失业救济的长队中。
- She lost her job and had to go on the dole.她失业了，不得不领取失业救济金。
- She was on the dole for three years before she got a job.在找到工作前，她靠失业救济金生活了 3 年。
- The factory closure will mean another few hundred people having to live on the dole.工厂关闭将意味着又有几百人不得不依靠失业救济金生活。
Topics Social issuesc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verb + dole
- claim
- go on
- sign on
- …
dole + noun
- money
- queue
- office
- …
preposition
- off the dole
- on the dole
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Word OriginOld English dāl ‘division, portion, or share’, of Germanic origin; related to deal. The sense ‘distribution of charitable gifts’ dates from Middle English; the sense ‘unemployment benefit’ dates from the early 20th cent.

dole

verb

/dəʊl/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they dole	/dəʊl/ /dəʊl/
he / she / it doles	/dəʊlz/ /dəʊlz/
past simple doled	/dəʊld/ /dəʊld/
past participle doled	/dəʊld/ /dəʊld/
-ing form doling	/ˈdəʊlɪŋ/ /ˈdəʊlɪŋ/