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What does typecast mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word typecast? Here's what it means.

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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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.
After playing the caped hero in two sequels, he knew there was a danger of becoming typecast.
Like many Scottish men typecast by gender, Max's chosen career is something of a running joke amongst members of his family.
Throughout the 60s and 70s, Jack Lemmon was typecast as a tense, neurotic, excruciatingly insecure pen pusher.
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.

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