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Silent partner   /sˈaɪlənt pˈɑrtnər/   Listen
noun
Partner  n.  
1.
One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Hence:
(a)
A husband or a wife.
(b)
Either one of a couple who dance together.
(c)
One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business. "My other self, the partner of my life."
2.
(Law) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.
3.
pl. (Naut.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.
Dormant partner, or Silent partner. See under Dormant, a.
Synonyms: Associate; colleague; coadjutor; confederate; partaker; participator; companion; comrade; mate.


adjective
Silent  adj.  
1.
Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. "How silent is this town!"
2.
Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. "Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men." "This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent."
3.
Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
4.
(Pron.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
5.
Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. (R.) "Cause... silent, virtueless, and dead."
Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant.
Synonyms: Mute; taciturn; dumb; speechless; quiet; still. See Mute, and Taciturn.





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"Silent partner" Quotes from Famous Books



... this sensitiveness that kept us from questioning him, even indirectly, and perhaps led us into the wildest surmises. He was acting secretly for a brotherhood or society of waiters; he was a silent partner of his German employer; he was a disguised Italian stockbroker, gaining "points" from the unguarded conversation of "operating" customers; he was a political refugee with capital; he was a fugitive Sicilian bandit, investing ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... of a silent partner Prince Otondo balanced, in his philosophical mind, the various ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... was in the blood; and I struck while the iron was hot. I got an outright sum from him; and he could not resist a chance to share all that profit when capital was to be had in New York for three or four per cent. He went in as silent partner, as I was in the saloon at Goldfield; as a partner with ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... evidently a person of happy resources, and a joy-compelling temperament that could find virtue in white-fish if it couldn't get trout. He began to talk to Tommy, not without an amused consciousness of Tommy's silent partner on the bank above, nor without an occasional glance up at the maidenly head serenely exalted in the sunlight. Nor did Ruth Mary fail to respond, with her down-bent looks, as simply and unawares as the clouds turning their bright side to ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote


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