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Grubstake

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.

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"Grubstake" Quotes from Famous Books

... seeking a "grubstake,"—some one to finance another expedition into the virgin Clearwater for half of such gains as he should make. In a few weeks more the winter would close down; the horses, essential to such a trip as this, had to be driven down to the gate of the Outside,—three ...

— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall

... Squitty Island. There had been much talk of those claims. Years ago Bill Munro—he who died of the flu in his cabin beside the Cove—had staked those claims. Munro was a young man then, a prospector. He had inveigled other men to share his hopes and labors, to grubstake him while he drove the tunnel that was to cut the vein. MacRae's father had taken a hand in this. So had Peter Ferrara. But these informal partnerships had always lapsed. Old Bill Munro's prospects had never got beyond the purely prospective stage. The copper was ...

— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair