grubstake
Example Sentences
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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
Presently, in fact, he was putting together a grubstake to pick up a furniture set at a one-day clearance sale.
From New York Times
The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.
From Economist
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.
From BusinessWeek
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