VERB
- supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits
NOUN
- funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits
How To Use grubstake In A Sentence
- In many cases, he grubstakes those who don't have the cash to pay up front.
- With a proper vehicle and a grubstake of running money, Quentin might even be able to make it into the interior of Mexico. KISS OF THE BEES
- Not every prospector was grubstaked by a large company or criminal consortium. Flinx In Flux
- Kellogg had termed his grubstake, before he knew it. The Fortune Hunter
- All I needed was a grubstake to keep the wolves from the door.
- Now that he's been discharged, Wetter hopes to find some gold of his own using a loan for a "grubstake," an old mining term for money to sustain the search. BusinessWeek.com --
- After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the Chapter 25
- Now that he's been discharged, Wetter hopes to find some gold of his own using an anticipated loan for a "grubstake," an old mining term for money to sustain the search. The Monitor :
- To make this clear you must understand that I, on behalf of the company and acting as the company's agent, grubstaked Whitey Lewis and four others to go in and stake those claims. North of Fifty-Three
- Half an hour later he was conferring with Jones, the erstwhile elevator boy and rabid proletarian whom Daylight long before had grubstaked to literature for a year. Chapter XVII
