sleeping partner

noun

, British.

1. silent partner.

sleeping partner

noun

1. a partner in a business who does not play an active role, esp one who supplies capital Alsosilent partner

Word History and Origins

Origin of sleeping partner¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

Some of them, more imaginative, declared that Mrs. Charmington was even a sleeping partner in the saponaceous firm.

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They laughed and smoked and made a great noise; the manager would come to greet his sleeping partner.

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Poor Crassus found, however, that to be a sleeping partner in a concern was quite a dangerous position.

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Everard Barett was the sleeping partner in a large manufacturing firm in that provincial town.

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They make time the sleeping partner of their lives to accomplish what ought to be achieved by their own will.

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