influencer

UK/ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/US/ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — influence sits at #1,881mostly written

Other forms: influencers

An influencer is a person paid because millions follow what they post and buy what they show. A beauty influencer.

The job is trust, which is why one dishonest post can end the whole thing. An influencer must declare paid posts, and a great many quietly do not.

Definitions of influencer

1nouninfluencerA person paid because millions follow what they post and buy what they show.B2
“One influencer emptied the shelves of it in a weekend.”

influencer is a person.

Where it comes from

Old French
influence
Middle English
influence
English
influence
English, today
influencer

From influence + -er. influence comes from Middle English influence, from Old French influence. a doublet of influenza.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Technology & Internet

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influencer in the wild

Traumatic bonding may occur between the victim and influencer, as a result, the victim may even defend the perpetrator.
Undue influence
The FTC started enforcing this on a large scale in 2016, sending letters to several companies and influencers who had failed to disclose sponsored content.
Influencer marketing
Many Instagram influencers started using #ad in response and feared that this would affect their income.
Influencer marketing
Some internet personalities are known as social media influencers, or simply influencers, due to their social influence online.
Internet personality
As part of influencer marketing, companies and organizations may enlist internet personalities to advertise their products to their fan base and followers on their respective platforms.
Internet personality

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the influence family

influence

influencer — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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