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A grubstake is money given to someone so they can start a new piece of work — a business, or, in the old American West, a search for gold. The person who gives the money gets a share of the profit if the work succeeds. The word is a picture: grub is a casual word for food, and a stake is the money you put in. At first a grubstake was food and a little cash to keep a miner alive while he dug. People still use it, mostly in American English, for the same kind of deal in other businesses. It sounds a bit old and , not like a bank word. You can also use it as a verb: a grubstaked the miners.
入股資金、創業本錢（給啟動金或生活費，換未來收益的一份）
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
grubstakenoun
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businessminingMoney, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits.
- I've been through hell. The other three are all at work and healthy, getting grub-stake to prospect up White River this winter.
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businessAn amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits.
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Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.
- 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.
- 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.
grubstakeverb
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To supply such funds to.
- "Nobody grub-stakes me," was the answer. "I stake myself, and when I make a killing it's sure all mine. [...] "
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。