| 单词 | working partner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworking partner working partner n. a partner in a business who takes an active part in its management.Opposed to sleeping partner n. at sleeping adj. 5a, silent partner n. at silent adj. and n. Compounds 2, limited partner n. at limited adj. and n. Compounds. Π 1783 Westm. Mag. Sept. 455/1 My father..has left the laborious part of the business to a working partner, and built a villa on this Common. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. vii. 146 I..became the working partner in a new firm. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. viii. 282 The working partner gets one third of the wool and of the increase, while the proprietary partner..follows some other profession. 1920 Oil Trade Jrnl. Mar. 143/1 A kind of partnership, including, as a sleeping partner, the British government, and as working partners the two principal British oil consolidations. 1996 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 May d2/4 The working partners..own about three-quarters of the firm's capital, with the limited partners holding the rest. 2005 Vanity Fair Apr. 240/2 To finance a flotation, Wasserstein told the working partners, they would have to take pay cuts. < as lemmas |
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