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grubstake

/gruhb-steyk/US // ˈgrʌbˌsteɪk //UK // (ˈɡrʌbˌsteɪk) //

赌注,赌局,赌金,赌钱

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    grub·staked, grub·stak·ing.

    • : to furnish with a grubstake: I grubstaked him to two mules and supplies enough for five months.

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Examples

  • 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.