ten percenter
or ten-per·cent·er
noun Informal.
an agent, especially an actor's agent, whose fee is 10 percent of a client's salary.
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Origin of ten percenter
1900–05; ten percent + -er1
Words nearby ten percenter
tenosynovectomy, tenosynovitis, tenotomy, tenovaginitis, tenpenny, ten percenter, tenpin, tenpin bowling, tenpins, tenpounder, tenrec
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Example sentences from the Web for ten percenter
"Zelda was my best flesh act," interrupted Arnold Wilson Wyle, a ten-percenter whom video had saved from alimony jail.
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