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A trademark genericization, from the brand name Central Casting.

- An unspecified source of stereotypical types for film or television.

- “central casting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

- “central casting”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

- “central casting”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

- “central casting”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.