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Definition of Grubstake
1. Noun. Funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits.
2. Verb. Supply with funds in return for a promised share of profits.
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
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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