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Grubstake vs Grubstaked - What's the difference?

grubstake | grubstaked |

As verbs the difference between grubstake and grubstaked

is that grubstake is to supply such funds to while grubstaked is (grubstake).

As a noun grubstake

is (mining) money, materials, tools, food etc provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits.

grubstake

English

Alternative forms

*grub-stake

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mining) Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits
  • *1918 , Jack London,
  • *:I've been through hell. The other three are all at work and healthy, getting grub-stake to prospect up White River this winter.
  • (business) An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits
  • Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.
  • *1903 , U.S. Geological Survey professional paper , page 35
    • No one however should go to this country intending to mine without taking with him a year's supplies commonly known as a grub stake or its money equivalent about $1,000.
  • *1936 , Philip Ashton Rollins,The Cow Boy: An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-time , page 34
  • *:However, each of these words might, on occasion, be used in a different sense, [...] , "grub-stake " to denote one's food supply, regardless of how obtained.
  • *2013 , The Economist, Manufacturing metals: a tantalizing prospect
  • *:The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.

    • Verb

    (grubstak)
  • To supply such funds to.
  • *1910 , Jack London,
  • *:"Nobody grub-stakes me," was the answer. "I stake myself, and when I make a killing it's sure all mine. [...] "

    • grubstaked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (grubstake)

    • grubstake

    English

    Alternative forms

    *grub-stake

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits
  • *1918 , Jack London,
  • *:I've been through hell. The other three are all at work and healthy, getting grub-stake to prospect up White River this winter.
  • (business) An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits
  • Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.
  • *1903 , U.S. Geological Survey professional paper , page 35
    • No one however should go to this country intending to mine without taking with him a year's supplies commonly known as a grub stake or its money equivalent about $1,000.
  • *1936 , Philip Ashton Rollins,The Cow Boy: An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-time , page 34
  • *:However, each of these words might, on occasion, be used in a different sense, [...] , "grub-stake " to denote one's food supply, regardless of how obtained.
  • *2013 , The Economist, Manufacturing metals: a tantalizing prospect
  • *:The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.

    • Verb

    (grubstak)
  • To supply such funds to.
  • *1910 , Jack London,
  • *:"Nobody grub-stakes me," was the answer. "I stake myself, and when I make a killing it's sure all mine. [...] "