working partner
noun[C]
ukus(alsoactive partner)FINANCE,WORKPLACE,MANAGEMENT
apartnerin abusinesswhotakesanactivepartinmanagingit
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silent partner
sleeping partner
Examplesofworking partner
working partner
He needed aworkingpartneras well as a marriage partner.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He came in in his father's place, which makes him nominally the head; but my husband is really the firstworkingpartner.
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By the raising of a finger he could have had a dozen working and moneyed partners, but he had no desire for aworkingpartner.
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I therefore continued to look out for aworkingpartner.
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In that case, theworkingpartnercan agree that the payment is made to the non-workingpartner.
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The factory was again working, a competent overlooker had been found, and a suitableworkingpartnertaken into the firm to carry it on.
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I repeat: couples do not have the choice to have payment made to theworkingpartnerat home.
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So we have two levels of maintenance, one of which is grossly unfair to aworkingpartner—male or female.
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Most of them will have savings; some will have aworkingpartner.
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He could have removed the unfair exclusion from disability working allowance of certain people, just because they have aworkingpartner.
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