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offcast

verb, noun — 3 senses

offcast

verb

Etymology From Middle English ofcasten, equivalent to off- + cast. Cognate with Danish afkaste (“to shed”), Swedish avkasta (“to crop, throw off, yield”). The noun is possibly derived from Middle English ofcast (“the refuse of plants”).

1

To cast off; shed.

2

Broadcasting, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater To remove from the cast of a production.

  • The experiment to offcast Davis began in 1937 with That Certain Woman; "She's a lady," we are told.1985, Tino Balio, The American film industry:
  • [...] and Paramount was not inclined to offcast its stars, the story was dropped.1997, Ann M. Sperber, Eric Lax, Bogart:
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  • White actresses were able to maintain a more multidimensional star persona than actresses of color, thanks in large part to their ability to off-cast themselves in challenging roles and control their off-screen image through publicity.2015, Emily Carman, Independent Stardom:

offcast

noun

Etymology From Middle English ofcasten, equivalent to off- + cast. Cognate with Danish afkaste (“to shed”), Swedish avkasta (“to crop, throw off, yield”). The noun is possibly derived from Middle English ofcast (“the refuse of plants”).

1

That which is rejected as useless.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.