silent partner

1. 1.

   a partner (who usually provides capital) whose association with the enterprise is not public knowledge

   Synonymssleeping partner

   Broaderpartner

Questions about silent partner

What does silent partner mean?

silent partner means "a partner (who usually provides capital) whose association with the enterprise is not public knowledge".

What is another word for silent partner?

Close synonyms include sleeping partner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silent partner a common word?

silent partner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.