All doled synonyms
dole
D d verb doled
- assign β If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- carry out β If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- appoint β If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
- earmark β any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- apportion β When you apportion something such as blame, you decide how much of it different people deserve or should be given.
- distribute β to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- appropriate β Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
- allocate β If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
- assign β If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- designate β When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- set aside β the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- conserve β If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
- give out β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- admeasure β to measure out (land, etc) as a share; apportion
- cut β If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- share β a plowshare.
- slice β a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
- budget β Your budget is the amount of money that you have available to spend. The budget for something is the amount of money that a person, organization, or country has available to spend on it.
- parcel β an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- deal β If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
- give β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- ration β a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- portion β a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- lot β lot (def 14).
- measure β a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- divide β to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- control β Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- proportion β comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- quota β the share or proportional part of a total that is required from, or is due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
- limit β the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- save β to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
- issue β the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- prorate β to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- partition β a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- halve β to divide into two equal parts.
- split β to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- meted β to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
- administrated β to administer.
- allotted β to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- rationed β a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- dole β Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969β96.
- mete β to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
- shell out β a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- split up β to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
noun doled
- allowanced β Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
- benefited β something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- gifted β having great special talent or ability: the debut of a gifted artist.
- granted β to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- parceled β an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.