Usually means: Assigning unsuitable actor to role.
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  1. miscasting: Merriam-Webster
  2. miscasting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. miscasting: Vocabulary.com
  4. miscasting: Wordnik
  5. miscasting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. miscasting: Wiktionary
  7. miscasting: Dictionary.com
  8. Miscasting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. miscasting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. miscasting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Miscasting: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (miscast)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cast or reckon incorrectly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cast or direct erroneously or improperly.
verb:  To cast an actor in an inappropriate role.
verb:  To make an error when casting a vote.
noun:  An erroneous cast or reckoning.
adjective:  Erroneously cast
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