Profit vs Grubstake - What's the difference?
profit | grubstake |
Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
* Rambler
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
* Bible, 1 Corinthians vii. 35
* Shakespeare
(legal) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
* Bible, Hebrews iv. 2
* Dryden
To benefit, gain.
To take advantage of, exploit, use.
(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 ,
*1936 , Philip Ashton Rollins,The Cow Boy: An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-time ,
*: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,
*:The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.
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. [...] "
In transitive terms the difference between profit and grubstake
is that profit is to benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody) while grubstake is to supply such funds to.profit
English
(wikipedia profit)Noun
(en noun)- Let no man anticipate uncertain profits .
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits' to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: ' profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}
- This I speak for your own profit .
- if you dare do yourself a profit and a right
Usage notes
Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative the term loss is correct. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.Synonyms
* gainAntonyms
* lossVerb
(en verb)- The word preached did not profit them.
- It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
Derived terms
* book profit * for-profit * for fun and profit * nonprofit * not-for-profit * paper profit * profit from * profitable * profitably * profiteer * profit margin * profit sharing * profit takingExternal links
* * ----grubstake
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Alternative forms
*grub-stakeNoun
(en noun)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.
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Manufacturing metals: a tantalizing prospect