Meaning of dole bludger | Babel Free

Definitions

An unemployed person who has no intention of seeking a job, and survives on government-funded unemployment benefits.

Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang

Examples

“As I said earlier, the Prime Minster and the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs have unmercifully labelled sections of the unemployed as dole bludgers.”

“People who do not support the common good, such as dole bludgers (social security cheats) fall outside the mateship fold.”

“1997, Noel Pearson, Shifting Ground Indeed, in 2011, Up from the Mission: Selected Writings, page 73, So from day one of the new government we saw a sustained orgy of divisiveness and meanness about immigration, Aborigines and dole bludgers.”

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