silent+partner

  • 61managing partner — ➔ partner * * * managing partner UK US noun [C] ► WORKPLACE the owner of a company who is also one of its managers: »I am the founder of the company and one of the managing partners. → Compare SILENT PARTNER(Cf. ↑ …

    Financial and business terms

  • 62active partner — ➔ partner1 * * * active partner UK US noun [C] (also working partner) ► WORKPLACE a senior person who owns a company with other people and does practical work relating to running the company → Compare SILENT PARTNER( …

    Financial and business terms

  • 63sleeping partner — ➔ partner1 * * * sleeping partner UK US noun [C] UK FINANCE ► SILENT PARTNER(Cf. ↑silent partner): »Morrow was the sleeping partner behind many of these successful ventures …

    Financial and business terms

  • 64Active Partner — An invested person who is involved in the daily operations of the partnership. An active partner helps run the business to enhance his or her returns and is therefore considered a material participant. This person typically shares more risk and… …

    Investment dictionary

  • 65dormant partner — A silent partner, one whose connection with the firm is concealed from the public and who takes no part in the conduct of the business or affairs of the firm. 40 Am J1st Partn § 15. See silent partner …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 66Dormant partner — Dormancy Dor man*cy, n. [From {Dormant}.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. [1913 Webster] It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke. [1913 Webster]… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 67sleeping partner — Dormancy Dor man*cy, n. [From {Dormant}.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. [1913 Webster] It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke. [1913 Webster]… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 68secret partner — a partner whose name as a member of a firm is not revealed to the public. Cf. silent partner. [1905 10] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 69sleeping partner — noun a business partner who doesnt 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 Syn: silent partner …

    Wiktionary

  • 70sleeping partner — n BrE someone who owns part of a business but is not actively involved in running it American Equivalent: silent partner …

    Dictionary of contemporary English