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Definition of grubstake in English: grubstakenounˈɡrʌbsteɪkˈɡrəbsteɪk North American informal An amount of material, provisions, or money supplied to an enterprise (originally a prospector for ore) in return for a share in the resulting profits. Example sentencesExamples - With a grubstake from his father, he went to work.
- She has, however, provisioned each egg with a grubstake: a substantial amount of nourishing yolk, which, soon after the egg hatches, is safely enclosed in the baby's gut.
- After all, how different is the $5 million in first-round venture capital financing for a cyber start-up from the silver prospector's grubstake?
- All I needed was a grubstake to keep the wolves from the door.
- But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table.
verbˈɡrʌbsteɪkˈɡrəbsteɪk [with object]North American informal Provide with a grubstake. he worried about his responsibilities to those who had grubstaked him Example sentencesExamples - We grubstaked them and we were to see to getting the stuff out.
- He argued that rich parent alluvial fields, such as the Victorian fields in the 1850s and Coolgardie - Kalgoorlie after 1892, grubstaked large numbers of prospectors and so quickened the rate of discovery of new deposits.
- In many cases, he grubstakes those who don't have the cash to pay up front.
- In fact, after their quarrel, Rodney believes that Tom has merely been grubstaking his work.
Definition of grubstake in US English: grubstakenounˈɡrəbstākˈɡrəbsteɪk North American informal An amount of material, provisions, or money supplied to an enterprise (originally a prospector for ore) in return for a share in the resulting profits. Example sentencesExamples - But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table.
- All I needed was a grubstake to keep the wolves from the door.
- She has, however, provisioned each egg with a grubstake: a substantial amount of nourishing yolk, which, soon after the egg hatches, is safely enclosed in the baby's gut.
- With a grubstake from his father, he went to work.
- After all, how different is the $5 million in first-round venture capital financing for a cyber start-up from the silver prospector's grubstake?
verbˈɡrəbstākˈɡrəbsteɪk [with object]North American informal Provide with a grubstake. he worried about his responsibilities to those who had grubstaked him Example sentencesExamples - In fact, after their quarrel, Rodney believes that Tom has merely been grubstaking his work.
- He argued that rich parent alluvial fields, such as the Victorian fields in the 1850s and Coolgardie - Kalgoorlie after 1892, grubstaked large numbers of prospectors and so quickened the rate of discovery of new deposits.
- We grubstaked them and we were to see to getting the stuff out.
- In many cases, he grubstakes those who don't have the cash to pay up front.
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