Grubstake

Quick meaning: Grubstake is a noun meaning (mining) Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits.

Meaning

(mining) Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits.

More Meanings

1. (business) An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits.
2. Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.
3. (transitive) To supply such funds to.

Example Sentences

"Nobody grub-stakes me," was the answer. "I stake myself, and when I make a killing it's sure all mine. [...] "

The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.

I've been through hell. The other three are all at work and healthy, getting grub-stake to prospect up White River this winter.

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.

Word Forms

• grubstakes
• grub-stake
• grubstaking
• grubstaked

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grub-stake, grubbing, grub, graft, stockpile, glebe.

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