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Given similar parts
Answer for the clue "Given similar parts ", 8 letters:
typecast
Alternative clues for the word typecast
- Unable to broaden one's roles
- Always getting the same part of cooked pasty etc
- Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way?
- Petty cash running short unfortunately? Always in the same position
- Given the same sort of parts
- Given similar roles repeatedly
- Roled up in one?
- Pigeonholed, in moviedom
Word definitions for typecast in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also type-cast , with reference to actors, 1937 (implied in typecasting ), from type (n.) in the "general character" sense (perhaps a deliberate pun on the verbal phrase in the printing sense "to found types in molds," attested from 1847). See type (n.) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cast repeatedly in the same kind of role identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed" [syn: type ]
Usage examples of typecast.
Every technological innovation was bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book tokens.
If central casting had sent him to an HD producer for the role of an over-bred, cretinous aristocrat, the producer would have sent him back with a blistering memo about stereotypes and typecasting.