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Not having many different parts?
Answer for the clue "Not having many different parts? ", 8 letters:
typecast
Alternative clues for the word typecast
- Petty cash running short unfortunately? Always in the same position
- Always playing the same role
- Always landing similar roles
- Pigeonholed, in moviedom
- Unable to broaden one's roles
- Always getting the same part of cooked pasty etc
- Pigeonholed, in filmdom
- In extremes of torment, Spacey furious, given predictable roles
Word definitions for typecast in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly. 2 To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc. 3 (context computing programming English) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object). ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I don't want to get typecast as a comedy actress. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Babur thinks he looks like a film star, the sort who gets typecast as a rugged mountain trapper. ▪ I don't want you typecast in khaki battle jacket. ...
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.