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单词 sleeping partner
释义

sleeping partner

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noun British.

silent partner.

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, sleep learning
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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 Onions
  • I 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 capitalAlso: silent partner
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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