The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stereotype \Ste"re*o*type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stereotyped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stereotyping.] [Cf. F. st['e]r['e]otyper.]
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
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Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
--Duke of Argyll (1887).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1807, verbal noun from stereotype (v.). Figurative sense from 1888.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of stereotype English)
Usage examples of "stereotyping".
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.
One day he took me to the headquarters of his father's newspaper, and there, after a brief colloquy with a sub-editor, he showed me the page-sized pink cardboard forms, embossed with what would be the funnies, when the sheets had been through the stereotyping machine, which would cast them in printer's metal.