grubstake

Example Sentences

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But Hagan also lavishes praise upon Wenner for building a media empire from a tiny grubstake.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2017

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 • Apr. 15, 2015

At the firm's start in 1985, Schwarzman and co-founder Peter G. Peterson shared a secretary and oversaw a grubstake of just $400,000.

From BusinessWeek • May 7, 2009

Senator Guggenheim,* as you know, was a miner, a mining man, and he understood what a grubstake was .

From Time Magazine Archive

He told Westerberg he planned on staying until April 15, just long enough to put together a grubstake.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer