silent partner

noun
a partner taking no active part in the conduct of a business.
Compare secret partner.


Origin:
1820–30, Americanism

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silent partner
 
n
(US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): sleeping partner a partner in a business who does not play an active role, esp one who supplies capital

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Silent partner is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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