silent partner
a partner taking no active part in the conduct of a business.
Origin of silent partner
1- Compare secret partner.
Words Nearby silent partner
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use silent partner in a sentence
Before President Barack Obama’s makeover of the student loan system in 2010, the federal government was essentially a silent partner in a $60 billion program.
Education Dept. orders Navient to refund $22.3 million in decade-old student loan scandal | Danielle Douglas-Gabriel | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostIn Iraq, Tehran was our silent partner, working to break an ISIS siege and edging out Maliki.
How Iran Could Become Our Shadow Enemy in the Syria ISIS War | Jacob Siegel | September 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNext to her, Jenny Sanford, author of Staying True, and Dina Matos McGreevey, author of silent partner, look like wallflowers.
At this time Cochin was also a silent partner in Matifat's drug-store.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheHe was an abstracted and silent partner, and in the intervals of dancing he studied his cuff.
The Half-Hearted | John Buchan
He was the first one to take your candies to South Riveredge, cried Jean, with thoughts ever for the faithful old silent partner.
Three Little Women | Gabrielle E. JacksonMr. Meadows, the president, will take all telephone messages, as the horse is a silent partner.
Ticktock and Jim | Keith RobertsonDid she know what he meant to do with them; that is, was Cordelia a silent partner in Egbert's stock speculations?
Fair Harbor | Joseph Crosby Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for silent partner
US and Canadian a partner in a business who does not play an active role, esp one who supplies capital: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): sleeping partner
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse