ten percenter

or ten-per·center

noun

, Informal.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of ten percenter¹

1900–05; ten percent + -er ¹

Example Sentences

"Zelda was my best flesh act," interrupted Arnold Wilson Wyle, a ten-percenter whom video had saved from alimony jail.

From Project Gutenberg

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