grubstake 的 2 个定义
- provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- money or other assistance furnished at a time of need or of starting an enterprise.
grub·staked, grub·stak·ing.
- to furnish with a grubstake: I grubstaked him to two mules and supplies enough for five months.
grubstake 近义词
capital
finance
更多grubstake例句
- The others would bring enough for a winter grubstake, and would prolong their freedom and their independence just that much.
- And the caballos need a grubstake for the winter worse than we do, because they can't eat meat.
- On the strength of that I doubles my grubstake, and he no sooner gets his hands on the two sawbucks than he starts for the street.
- Half an hour afterward he came to the house with his parfleches, and asked me to put him up a couple of weeks' grubstake.
- But that project demanded a substantial grubstake, and other matters of moment were taking his attention at the time.