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ten percenter

or ten-per·cent·er

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noun Informal.

an agent, especially an actor's agent, whose fee is 10 percent of a client's salary.

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Words related to ten percenter

commissioner, minister, deputy, assistant, worker, broker, promoter, representative, lawyer, operator, operative, officer, handler, ambassador, attorney, go-between, negotiator, substitute, principal, abettor

Words nearby ten percenter

temuco, ten, ten code, ten commandments, ten gurus, ten percenter, ten years' war, ten's place, ten-, ten-acre block, ten-cent store

Origin of ten percenter

1900–05; ten percent + -er1
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples 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.

    At the Post|Horace Leonard Gold