sleeping partner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌsleeping ˈpartner noun [countable] British English BBsomeone who owns part of a business but is not actively involved in running it 不参与经营的合伙人 SYN American English silent partner
Examples from the Corpus
sleeping partner• He retired formally from Harland & Wolff in 1906, although effectively he had been a sleeping partner for over ten years.• It is possible that Storr continued the concern, Fogelberg perhaps acting as the sleeping partner.• It stood at stud at Craigie and half of its earnings were paid to William Dunlop, the sleeping partner.From Longman Business Dictionarysleeping partnerˌsleeping ˈpartner British English (also silent partner)COMMERCE a partner who invests in a business but does not take an active part in managing it → partnerˌsleeping ˈpartner nounChineseSyllable
business but is not part of a actively Corpus someone Business owns who
sleeping partner
ˌsleeping ˈpartner
noun [countable] British English
someone who owns part of a business but is not actively involved in running it
SYN silent partner American English
ˌsleeping ˈpartner
noun [countable] British Englishsomeone who owns part of a business but is not actively involved in running it
SYN silent partner American English