GRUBSTAKED Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

grubstaked

verb

past tense of grubstake

as in paid off

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Verb

Now, next week's midterm election stands as the clearest test yet of whether that balancing act has paid off.

— Caroline Linton, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
But more than two decades later, that project’s ill fate appears to have paid off handsomely.

— Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of paid off

Verb

Teachers are better paid and more people are working in Nevada than ever before.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
The Queen, meanwhile, paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in the Girls of Britain and Ireland Tiara, arguably the most famous piece in the late monarch's collection.

— Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of paid

Verb

In the middle of a lukewarm Massachusetts morning, Leonard Miller stood alone, toeing the 3-point arc in the corner of the court at TD Garden.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
The ballroom, rising where the East Wing stood until its demolition last October, is being funded largely by private donors, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Lockheed Martin, as Fortune has reported.

— Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of stood

Verb

And in the down-and-out category, Allbirds closed all of its stores and Francesca’s liquidated.

— David Moin, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
Late last week, the urgent selling in semiconductors and data-center equities and debt resembled the sort of forced-unwind rhythms from July, when a big upstart tech hedge fund was in the process of being all but liquidated.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of liquidated

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