offcast

English

Etymology

From off- +‎ cast. Cognate with Danish afkaste (“to shed”), Swedish avkasta (“to crop, throw off, yield”).

Verb

offcast (third-person singular simple present offcasts, present participle offcasting, simple past and past participle offcast)

1. (transitive) To cast off; shed.
2. (transitive, theater, television) To remove from the cast of a production.
   • 1985, Tino Balio, The American film industry:

     The experiment to offcast Davis began in 1937 with That Certain Woman; "She's a lady," we are told.

   • 1997, Ann M. Sperber, Eric Lax, Bogart:

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

Noun

offcast (plural offcasts)

1. That which is rejected or forcasten as useless.