Sentence example with the word 'grubstake'

grubstake

angel, backing, capitalization, deficit financing, financial backing, financing, funding, patronize, provide for, refinance, sponsor, stake, subsidy

Definition n. funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits

Last update: October 12, 2015


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This here party claimed the misfortune of bein' a younger son, whatever that is, and is grubstaked to a ranch by his people back home.'   [Please select]

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Why, she has fed every 'stew bum' on the Yukon, and there isn't a busted prospector in the country who wouldn't swear by her, for she has grubstaked dozens of them.   [Please select]

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I'm down and out, and I'm free to confess it, and any of you ladies and gents who would like to grubstake a stranger in a foreign land, why, here's your chance.   [Please select]

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"I've been grubstaked all over Australia, and up the Yukon, and over Death Valley, but I have never found a spot where there's so little gold as there is in these hills."   [Please select]

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