If you dish out something, you distribute it among a number of people. Doctors, not pharmacists, are responsible for dishing out drugs The council wants to dish the money out to specific projects
If you dish out food, you serve it to people at the beginning of each course of a meal. Here in the dining hall the cooks dish out chicken à la king
If someone dishes out criticism or punishment, they give it to someone. Linzi is well qualified to dish out advice. = dish up
administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"
provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P M "; "The entertainers served up a lively show"