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Substantiivit
- (mining) Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits
- (business) An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits
- Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.
Verbit
- (transitive) To supply such funds to.
Esimerkit
- I've been through hell. The other three are all at work and healthy, getting grub-stake to prospect up White River this winter.
- 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.
- "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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