GRUBSTAKE


Meaning of GRUBSTAKE in English

I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun

Etymology: grub (II) (food) + stake; from the lender's staking or risking the provisions so furnished

1. : supplies or funds furnished to a mining prospector on promise of a share in his discoveries

2. : material assistance (as a gift, loan, advance) provided for a person in difficult circumstances or for the launching of an enterprise or project

the ex-governor promised a … grubstake for the unemployed — Current Biography

needed a grubstake or he wouldn't have taken the job — Ross Santee

meant to leave Cincinnati as soon as he could get a grubstake — Arthur Krock

II. transitive verb

: to provide with a grubstake

it is the public which pays … for the handsome profit to those who have grubstaked the candidates — P.H.Douglas

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.