ˌcentral ˈcasting noun [uncountable]

1. an organization that supplies actors for small roles in films, plays etc

2. if you say that someone has come from central casting, you mean that they look like the perfect example of a particular type of person, as if an actor is playing the part:
Wearing black shoes and a pinstripe suit, he looked like central casting’s idea of the perfect civil servant.

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