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sleeping partner
sleeping partner
noun
- a partner in a business who does not play an active role, esp one who supplies capital Alsosilent partner
Word History and Origins
Origin of sleeping partner1
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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