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Grubstake   Listen
Grubstake

noun
1.
Funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits.





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"Grubstake" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Grubstake" :   fund, stake, interest


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