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Locked in a role
Answer for the clue "Locked in a role ", 8 letters:
typecast
Alternative clues for the word typecast
- Not having many different parts?
- Given similar parts
- Pigeonholed as an actor
- Use often in similar roles
- Kind actors playing similar roles continually?
- Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way?
- Always getting the same part of cooked pasty etc
- Assigned the same kind of role repeatedly
- Unable to broaden one's roles
Word definitions for typecast in dictionaries
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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.