Definition of Grubstake

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

Generic synonyms: Fund

2. Noun. Funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits.
Generic synonyms: Interest, Stake

Definition of Grubstake

1. Noun. An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits ¹

2. Verb. To supply such funds ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grubstake

1. [v -STAKED, -STAKING, -STAKES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grubstake

grubbers
grubbier
grubbies
grubbiest
grubbily
grubbiness
grubbinesses
grubbing
grubble
grubbled
grubbles
grubbling
grubby
grublike
grubs
grubstake (current term)
grubstaked
grubstaker
grubstakers
grubstakes
grubstaking
grubworm
grubworms
grucche
grucched
grucches
grucching
grudge
grudge match
grudge matches

Literary usage of Grubstake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"grubstake contracts.—What is popularly known in the West as a grubstake contract is an agreement whereby one party supplies the "grubstake" or provisions ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"Is it essential to a right In property under a grubstake contract that such property be acquired by means of the grubstake furnished, and pursuant to such ..."

3. The Compiled Labor Laws of the State of Nevada: 1919 by Nevada, Robert F. Cole (1919)
"PART 14—MINE, MILL AND SMELTER LABOR Article 1—Organic Act Creating Office of Inspector of Mines Article 2—grubstake Contracts and Prospecting Agreements ..."

4. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1914)
"There is a distinction between a "grubstake" contract and a contract where a miner is employed on 10 Lockhardt v. Leeds, 195 IT. S. 427, 25 Snp. Ct. Eep. ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"Ii It essential to a right in property onde! grubstake contract that such property is acquired by means of the grubstake ..."

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