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grubstake::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fund |
Examples of grubstake
grubstake
Until then, Mack had held a lot of jobs to cobble together his grubstake.
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Just think about how hard it was even five years ago to take a grubstake in foreign markets.
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That's a big leap for a private investment firm that started with a grubstake of $10 million in 1992.
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If the grubstake was too large and the Grubstakee was not adequately motivated, the venture would fail.
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To earn back just the investment capital, to say nothing of a return on that grubstake, requires a lot of transactions.
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It mattered nothing that a man could scratch and sift his way through grubstake after grubstake without success.
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In 1992, hungry for a bigger platform, he set up a hedge fund with a $25 million grubstake-half of which was his own money.
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On a single long weekend, he parlays a $130 grubstake into a fat $60,000 and ends up in Las Vegas trying to break the bank.
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To start them off, the U.S. gave each refugee traveling alone and going beyond Miami a $60 grubstake, and each family $100.
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- Funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits
- An advance payment, or simply an advance, is the part of a contractually due sum that is paid in advance for goods or services, while the balance included in the invoice will only follow the delivery. It is called a prepaid expense in accrual accounting.
- In the Western United States, supplies or funds furnished to a mining prospector on promise of a share in his discoveries. So called because the lender stakes or risks provisions so furnished.
