单词	grubstake
释义	grubstake /ˈɡrʌbsteɪk / North American informal noun 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.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.... But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table. With a grubstake from his father, he went to work. verb [with object] Provide with a grubstake: he worried about his responsibilities to those who had grubstaked him... In fact, after their quarrel, Rodney believes that Tom has merely been grubstaking his work. 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.
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