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tenpercentery en · NOUN

Etymology

From ten + percent + -ery, from the traditional 10% commission which agents collect from whatever amount their clients earn.

Meanings

  1. A talent agency.
    • Twenty-five years ago, a clutch of agents left the William Morris Agency to form CAA, forever changing the way tenpercenteries conduct business. 2000 June 13, Dan Cox, Claude Brodesser, “Seismic steps for H'w'd reps”, in Variety:

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