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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. inherited from ofcast — “the refuse of plants”
  2. inherited from ofcasten

Definitions

  1. To cast off

    To cast off; shed.

  2. 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.
    • [...] and Paramount was not inclined to offcast its stars, the story was dropped.
    • 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.

  3. That which is rejected as useless.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA