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grubstake
[gruhb-steyk]
noun
provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
money or other assistance furnished at a time of need or of starting an enterprise.
verb (used with object)
to furnish with a grubstake.
I grubstaked him to two mules and supplies enough for five months.
grubstake
/ ˈɡʌˌٱɪ /
noun
informalsupplies provided for a prospector on the condition that the donor has a stake in any finds
verb
informalto furnish with such supplies
to supply (a person) with a stake in a gambling game
Other 51Թ Forms
- grubstaker noun
- ˈܲˌٲ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of grubstake1
Example Sentences
Musk, for instance, got at least part of his grubstake from an emerald mine his family owned during the apartheid era in South Africa.
Small-time investors already have fled, their grubstakes or life savings decimated.
Mr. Trump hasn’t known fact from fiction since the day he called his daddy’s grubstake of $1 million “a small loan.”
He made a grubstake of, by all accounts, selling black market blue jeans and computers.
Both, as it happens, were attributes prized by Charles Lewis Tiffany, who helped found a store that sold stationery and fancy goods in 1837 with a $1,000 grubstake from his father.
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