grubstake
Example Sentences
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Small-time investors already have fled, their grubstakes or life savings decimated.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022
Former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 69, and former Tory Party Leader lain Macleod, 50, have found new grubstakes on Grub Street, as Britons call the publishing world.
From Time Magazine Archive
The workers were the fellows toiling for grubstakes.
From Burning Daylight by London, Jack
Cash watched them for a day or so; saw the size of their grubstakes, asked few questions and listened to a good deal of small-town gossip, and nodded his head contentedly.
From Cabin Fever by Bower, B. M.
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