secret partner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of secret partner
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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He was the secret partner in the $722 million purchase of 20th Century-Fox in 1981.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rich, a secret partner with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis in the 1981 purchase of the film studio, sold his shares to Davis last week for a reported $116 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scott's publishers, and of the Ballantynes his printers, with whom he was a secret partner, who were largely indebted to the Constables and so to the creditors of that house.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John
His old school friend, Ballantyne, forced into bankruptcy the printing firm in which Scott was a secret partner.
From Modern English Books of Power by Fitch, George Hamlin
I ran a store and was a secret partner in a saloon that paid better than the store.
From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick
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