grubstake
Example Sentences
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Musk, for instance, got at least part of his grubstake from an emerald mine his family owned during the apartheid era in South Africa.
From Los Angeles Times
Small-time investors already have fled, their grubstakes or life savings decimated.
From Washington Post
Mr. Trump hasn’t known fact from fiction since the day he called his daddy’s grubstake of $1 million “a small loan.”
From Washington Post
He made a grubstake of, by all accounts, selling black market blue jeans and computers.
From Salon
Both, as it happens, were attributes prized by Charles Lewis Tiffany, who helped found a store that sold stationery and fancy goods in 1837 with a $1,000 grubstake from his father.
From New York Times
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