rent-a-crowd
A group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures,…A group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own volition.
Meaning
1 sensesA group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own volition.
Origin
From rent-a- + crowd. The term is derived from a fictional company, Rentacrowd Ltd., mentiFrom rent-a- + crowd. The term is derived from a fictional company, Rentacrowd Ltd., mentioned in the Peter Simple (Michael Wharton) columns in the UK Daily Telegraph newspaper.
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Forms
plural: rent-a-crowds| Singular | rent-a-crowd |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.