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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
/ ˈɡ°ùÊŒ²úËŒ²õ³Ù±ðɪ°ì /
noun
- informal.supplies provided for a prospector on the condition that the donor has a stake in any finds
verb
- informal.to furnish with such supplies
- to supply (a person) with a stake in a gambling game
Derived Forms
- ˈ²µ°ù³Ü²úËŒ²õ³Ù²¹°ì±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²µ°ù³Ü²ús³Ù²¹°ìe°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog 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.â€
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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