percenter
nounUK /pəˈsɛn.tə/ · CA, US /pɚˈsɛn.tɚ/
Etymology From percent + -er (measurement suffix) or -er (informal entertainment suffix); the sense of "agent" relates to a percentage of profits being charged as a fee.
1
In compounds A member of a group that forms a specified percentage of a population.
Preceded by a number
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Entertainment, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Including, Slang An agent.
- If you are an agent, and you have been or are being approached by the American Guild of Variety Artists to help form a percenter organization in your city, you could do worse than use the Artists Representatives' Association for your model.1944, Billboard, volume 56, number 9:
- Related terms
- 13%, 13 percenter, 5 percenter, one-percenter, ten-percenter, two percenter, two-percenter