role-playn.
/ˈrəʊlpleɪ/, U.S. /ˈroʊlˌpleɪ/ An act of role-playing; the action or practice of role-playing.
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role-playing1901
role-taking1933
role-play1952
1952 J. W. Riegel Executive Devel. xv. 260 Sometimes the participants in a role-play, as they play their parts, change their concepts of the situation originally outlined.
1970 Peace News 2 Oct. 3/4 When the roleplay is over, people can return to the strategy game.
1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 87 207 A short follow-up study would be made in a week and..she must maintain her role-play orientation up to that time.
1983 E. Pizzey Watershed iii. xliv. 349 ‘I'll let Manny be mother and pour.’ Manny grinned. ‘I thought you didn't like stereotyped role-play.’
2002 New Yorker 22 Apr. 116/3 Let's do a little role-play. I'm them, you're you. Hey there! Whaddaya wanna talk about?
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role-playv.
/ˈrəʊlpleɪ/, U.S. /ˈroʊlˌpleɪ/ 1. intransitive. To engage in role-playing; (also) to take part in a role-playing game.
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role-play1950
1950 D. E. Cameron Gen. Psychotherapy xii. 285 As far as possible, the therapist should follow the patient's selection of the nurse who is to role play.
1967 A. Lurie Imaginary Friends xvii. 277 What if McMann were just role-playing at the end of our last interview?.. What if he knows very well he isn't Ro of Vama?
1972 J. J. Bray Poems 1961–71 36 So, too, the lead parts role-play on the platform: Roman rhetoric, elegant insouciance, pride of patrician.
1995 J. Miller Voxpop i. 26 One night, while role-playing, we met some people on LSD just wandering round the grounds.
2. transitive. To enact (a situation, etc.) through role-play; to portray or assume the part of (a person, character, etc.) through role-playing or in a role-playing game.
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society > communication > representation > role-playing > play the part of [verb (transitive)]
to bear the person of?1533
act1599
personate1604
comediate1624
tip1712
impersonate1715
come1721
role-play1951
1951 C. Argyris Role-playing in Action i. 7 Management and union officials have both found it extremely useful to role-play their points before presenting them in final bargaining sessions.
1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. x. 133 Students role-play some of the situations they will meet on the job.
1970 Peace News 2 Oct. 3/4 During a strategy game, a situation may arise which is so interesting that the group may want to roleplay it.
2000 Independent 28 Sept. ii. 1/3 About 50 participants sat on the floor linking arms, while others role-played the Czech police.
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