sleeping partner
noun British.
Origin of sleeping partner
First recorded in 1775–85
Words nearby sleeping partner
sleeping bag,
sleeping beauty,
sleeping car,
sleeping chair,
sleeping draught,
sleeping partner,
sleeping pill,
sleeping policeman,
sleeping porch,
sleeping sickness,
sleepless
Example sentences from the Web for sleeping partner
Instead, she had cast about among cousins and so forth until she had found one who knew the sleeping-partner of the firm.
Gray youth |Oliver OnionsI am quite content to be a sleeping-partner in the house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby.
Henry Dunbar |M. E. Braddon
British Dictionary definitions for sleeping partner
sleeping partner
noun
a partner in a business who does not play an active role, esp one who supplies capital
Also: silent partner