Usually means: Investor not involved in management.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word sleeping partner:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. sleeping partner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sleeping partner: Merriam-Webster
  3. sleeping partner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sleeping partner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sleeping partner: Vocabulary.com
  6. sleeping partner: Wordnik
  7. sleeping partner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sleeping partner: Wiktionary
  9. sleeping partner: Dictionary.com
  10. Sleeping Partner, Sleeping partner, The Sleeping Partner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. sleeping partner: Rhymezone
  12. sleeping partner: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sleeping partner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. sleeping partner: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sleeping partner: Legal dictionary
  2. sleeping partner: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleeping partner: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleeping partner: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleeping partner: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleeping partner: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sleeping partner)

noun:  (UK, Ireland) A business partner who doesn't 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.

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