typecasting

Variant of typecast

typecast definition

type·cast (tīp′kast′)

transitive verb typecast -·cast′, typecasting -·cast′·ing

to cast (an actor) repeatedly in the same type of part, or in the part of a character whose traits are very much like the actor's own

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