superagent

superagent

English

Etymology

    From super- + agent.

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    Noun

    superagent (plural superagents)

    1. A highly skilled or prominent agent, particularly in show business.
      • 2007 April 6, Virginia Heffernan, “On Gilded Sharks and Loverboys”, in New York Times[1]:
        Can he really continue playing Ari Gold, the jerk superagent, without getting delusions and landing in ego-disorder rehab?
      • 2017, Julie Klam, The Stars in Our Eyes, The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them, page 99:
        They were talking about the Business in the 1970s - mostly about their friend and Esther's fellow International Creative Management (ICM) superagent, the late Sue Mengers.

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