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Sleeping partner

noun

A partner (who usually provides capital) whose association with the enterprise is not public knowledge. Synonym: silent partner.

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"Sleeping partner" Quotes from Famous Books

... said, we made a menage together. How that old organ brings it all back. My fiddle was useless after the hard usage it received that day. Ninette and I went out on our rounds together, but for the present I was a sleeping partner in the firm, and all I could do was to grind occasionally when Ninette's arm ached, or pick up the sous that were thrown us. Ninette was, as a rule, fairly successful. Since her mother had died, a year before, ...

— The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson • Ernest Dowson et al

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... slight but painful suggestion of a Roman Catholic priest who habitually goes deep into private secrets and is never really satisfied until he has extracted the fullest possible confessions. He was the One that Dale had never so much cared about—the difficult member of the firm, the sleeping partner who never really slept, who professed to keep himself in the background, but who quietly asserted himself in important moments and proved infinitely the hardest ...

— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell

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... enough; but I'm but a sleeping partner in the concern. I were obliged to become a member for peace, else I don't go along with 'em. Yo see they think themselves wise, and me silly, for differing with them. Well! there's no harm in that. But then they won't let me be silly in peace ...

— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell

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