Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Supplies or funds advanced to a mining prospector or a person starting a business in return for a promised share of the profits.
- transitive verb To supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fit out or supply with appliances, etc., for some operation or undertaking, on condition of sharing in the profits. See
grub-stake , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mining Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits
- noun business An amount of
money advanced to someone starting abusiness in return for a share of thefuture profits - noun Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.
- verb transitive To supply such funds to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits
- verb supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word grubstake.
Examples
-
Kellogg had termed his grubstake, before he knew it.
The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906
-
The loan, known as a grubstake, entitled Bernard to a hefty share of the gold.
Gazette.com : 2010
-
Not much by Daddy's standards, but you'd figure someone with half a brain could do something constructive with that kind of grubstake, right?
Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992
-
He had been seeking a "grubstake," -- some one to finance another expedition into the virgin Clearwater for half of such gains as he should make.
The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930
-
Let it "grubstake" its intellectual prospectors and send them forth where
The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896
-
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 -- 2009
-
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.
ABC News: ABCNews 2009
-
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 : 2009
-
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.
-
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.
LJWorld.com stories: News By Tracie Cone - Associated Press Writer 2009
minouchette commented on the word grubstake
invitation to dinner
October 8, 2010
yarb commented on the word grubstake
'Only that was the year Centerboard ran out of the money and Dad had the bankroll on him to show and they had to sell everything they had to get a grubstake.'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham
June 30, 2012