sleeping partner

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssilent partner

   Broaderpartner

Questions about sleeping partner

What does sleeping partner mean?

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

What is another word for sleeping partner?

Close synonyms include silent 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 sleeping partner a common word?

sleeping 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.