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doleite

doleite noun: somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.

Noun

doleite (plural doleites)

  1. (informal) Somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.
    • Ordinary out-of-school youth make a similar distinction between themselves and the slapheads, doleites or dossers.2005, Monica Barry, Youth Policy And Social Inclusion, page 123
    • He was a poet and from a completely different class than us bunch of working-class doleites[…]2011, Jon Gaunt, Undaunted: The True Story Behind the Popular Shock-Jock

Forms of doleite

pluraldoleites

Origin of doleite

From dole + -ite.

Questions about doleite

What does doleite mean?
Doleite means somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.
What part of speech is doleite?
Doleite is a noun.
What is the plural of doleite?
The plural of doleite is doleites.

Words near doleite in the dictionary

  1. dolehead
  2. doleheads
  3. doleiform
  4. doleiro
  5. doleiros
  6. doleite
  7. doleites
  8. Doleman
  9. Dolemans
  10. Dolenc
  11. Dolence

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