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Definition of doling : of Dole

Synonyms:

discharging, compensating, rewarding, reimbursing, repaying, remitting, depositing, remunerating, refunding, bankrolling, settling

dispensing, presenting, endowing, bequeathing, expending, rendering, lavishing, sending, supplying, providing, giving, disbursing, paying, consigning, attributing, contributing, rationing, granting, imparting, lending, offering, showering, assisting, funding, donating, devoting, pledging, ascribing, allotting, allowing, furnishing, assigning, tendering, sharing, submitting, helping, delivering, extending, awarding, serving, bestowing

dislocating, disconnecting, radiating, evanescing, diverging, detaching, dispersing, breaking up, disintegrating, disordering, scattering, distributing, dissolving, diffracting, separating, evaporating, refracting, diffusing

Usage examples:

• Drank at Harper's with Doling, and so to my office, where I found all the officers of the regiments in town, waiting to receive money that their soldiers might go out of town, and what was in the Exchequer they had. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
• Betty seized the bundle and began doling them out, while her brothers and sisters clustered round, and clamoured for their share. - "Betty Trevor", Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey.
• He had eaten the last of his scanty supply of biscuits and bacon; but, like other timber cruisers- all of them must travel light- he had his raisins to fall back on, doling them one by one, masticating them thoroughly and finding the nourishment adequate. - "Joan of Arc of the North Woods", Holman Day.