dole out

English

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Verb

dole out (third-person singular simple present doles out, present participle doling out, simple past and past participle doled out)

(idiomatic, transitive) To distribute in small amounts.
- 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
  The animators, writers and Gilbert do a fantastic job of making Laura an eminently crush-worthy figure of adolescent yearning but the episode doles out scenes of her and Bart together sparingly.

Synonyms

(distribute in small portions): dish out, mete out

Translations

to distribute in small quantities

French: distribuer (fr)
Italian: distribuire (it)
Maori: tōronga

Occitan: distribuir
Serbo-Croatian: porcionirati

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