silent partner
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪlənt ˈpɑːrtənər/
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socio capitalista
- As a silent partner, he invested money into the startup but let the others manage it.
Examples
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While she'd assembled enough money to cover the purchase, Patricia needed a silent partner to back both the restoration and the renovation, and the Haymaker Club fit the bill perfectly.
Fiction book (1999) -
Well, you're gonna want to keep tabs on your investment, the running of the business, but I'm looking for a silent partner.
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Six months ago, I took on a partner, a silent partner.
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So who is this silent partner?
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And he was concerned that he might have a silent partner in this Mr. Nice.
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I'll be the silent partner.
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If you hate the restaurant industry but are somehow making money, you can have someone else take over the operation and set yourself up as a silent partner.
Blog text (5) -
As a silent partner, you won't have to do any work; you just sit back and collect your cut of the profits.
Blog text (5) -
Gunn also might have had as a silent partner the wealthiest man in Georgia and his sometime political ally, Savannah Mayor Thomas Gibbons.
Academic text (2010) -
She decided to become a silent partner in the restaurant, contributing funds without handling daily operations.
Synonyms
A person who gives money to a business but does not help run it
Antonyms
How Involved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'silent' (not speaking or not publicly active) + 'partner' (a business associate), so a learner who knows both words can infer a partner who does not participate in management or public association. This noun-noun composition follows transparent, cross-linguistic logic and does not require idiomatic knowledge beyond the constituents.
Etymology
Silent partner comes from business: a partner who is silent, meaning they put in money but are 'not involved' in running the company. So the term means someone who invests but stays out of day-to-day decisions and often keeps their name private.