"sleeping partner" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sleeping partners [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sleeping partner (plural sleeping partners)
  1. (UK) A business partner who doesn't play an active role in running the day-to-day operations of a business, who instead, finances the business in the form of capital investment. Tags: UK Categories (topical): Business, People Synonyms: silent partner, sleeping-partner Translations (a business partner who is not involved in the day-to-day business, but puts up capital): stiller Gesellschafter [masculine] (German), stiller Teilhaber [masculine] (German), passiv delägare (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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