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passive investor

passive investor noun: an investor in a business who by agreement or otherwise can not take an active role in the management of the business.

Noun

passive investor (plural passive investors)

  1. An investor in a business who by agreement or otherwise can not take an active role in the management of the business.
    • He wanted to be a simple passive investor, but when the majority owner died and her widower made a mess of it, he had to take over.

Forms of passive investor

pluralpassive investors

Questions about passive investor

What does passive investor mean?
Passive investor means an investor in a business who by agreement or otherwise can not take an active role in the management of the business.
What part of speech is passive investor?
Passive investor is a noun.
What is the plural of passive investor?
The plural of passive investor is passive investors.

Words near passive investor in the dictionary

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  2. passive immunities
  3. passive immunity
  4. passive income
  5. passive incomes
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  8. passive iron
  9. passive learning
  10. passive matrices
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