doled out

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

given out in portions

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

distributed mete out apportioned dispensed meted out dealt out parceled out

Examples

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were. Hallie Ephron

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up. Ruth Reichl

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite. Rabindranath Tagore

Close letter words and terms

dole out dole queue dolebludger doleful dolefull dolefully