dole

  1. Verb.  To distribute in small amounts; to share out, small portions of a meagre resource.
  2. Noun.  Money or other goods given as charity.
  3. Noun.  (UK, Canada) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
  4. Noun.  (archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.

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