grubstake

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in…

   Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits.

   • I've been through hell. The other three are all at work and healthy, getting grub-stake to prospect up White River this winter.
2. 2

   An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the…

   An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits.

3. 3

   Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.

   • No one however should go to this country intending to mine without taking with him a year's supplies commonly known as a grub stake or its money equivalent about $1,000.
   • However, each of these words might, on occasion, be used in a different sense, [...], "grub-stake" to denote one's food supply, regardless of how obtained.
   • The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.
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   1. 4

      To supply such funds to.

      • "Nobody grub-stakes me," was the answer. "I stake myself, and when I make a killing it's sure all mine. [...] "

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