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View synonyms for sleeping partner

sleeping partner

noun

, British.


sleeping partner

noun

  1. a partner in a business who does not play an active role, esp one who supplies capital Alsosilent 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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sleeping partner1

First recorded in 1775–85
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Example Sentences

Medium-density foam ranges from four to five pounds per cubic foot and helps to isolate your body movements during the night so sleeping partners disturb each other less often.

Some of them, more imaginative, declared that Mrs. Charmington was even a sleeping partner in the saponaceous firm.

They laughed and smoked and made a great noise; the manager would come to greet his sleeping partner.

Poor Crassus found, however, that to be a sleeping partner in a concern was quite a dangerous position.

Everard Barett was the sleeping partner in a large manufacturing firm in that provincial town.

They make time the sleeping partner of their lives to accomplish what ought to be achieved by their own will.

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