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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



... sweater,—the public. Only by its sufferance of the bargain counter and of sweat-shop-made goods has the nuisance existed as long as it has. I am glad I have lived to see the day of its passing, for, unless I greatly mistake, it is at hand now that the old silent partner is going out of ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis

... evil-minded gossips in the bank said he was in league with "Old Nick." That, of course, was absurd, for it does not necessarily follow, because a man suggests a means looking to an end, disreputable though it be, that he has Mephistopheles for a silent partner. The conservative element among the employees would not openly venture so far, but rather thought if his satanic majesty and old Sanders ran a race, the former would come in a bad second, if he ...
— The Fifth String, The Conspirators • John Philip Sousa



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