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What does typecast mean?

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Verb
  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. (programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
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Like many Scottish men typecast by gender, Max's chosen career is something of a running joke amongst members of his family.
But that makes me feel stereotyped, typecast in one kind of role and viewed as a spokesperson for an entire race.
Stiller departs from his typecast of an awkward intellectual, which is to his credit.
But I don't think she's ever understood that the public wants her typecast as a beneficent, starched woman with at least two children in tow.
Tyrone Power, tired of being typecast in heroic pretty-boy roles, optioned William Lindsay Gresham's pitch black noir novel himself.
Throughout the 60s and 70s, Jack Lemmon was typecast as a tense, neurotic, excruciatingly insecure pen pusher.

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