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Silent partner   /sˈaɪlənt pˈɑrtnər/   Listen
Silent partner

noun
1.
A partner (who usually provides capital) whose association with the enterprise is not public knowledge.  Synonym: sleeping partner.






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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



Words linked to "Silent partner" :   partner



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