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Give a fitting part
Answer for the clue "Give a fitting part ", 8 letters:
typecast
Alternative clues for the word typecast
- Kind actors playing similar roles continually?
- Restrict to role
- Given similar roles repeatedly
- Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way?
- Acts badly after work at keyboard getting the same parts?
- Given the same sort of parts
- Constantly given the same kind of role
- Unable to broaden one's roles
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.) ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Typecast (foaled April 10, 1966) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse noted for her ability to win races at both short and very long distances.
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.