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grubstake

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9 lettersPart of speech verb, nounSorted abegkrstuStarts with GEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits

Word origin

From grub + stake.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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