Meaning of role play | Babel Free

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Dated form of roleplay.

alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable

Examples

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“After lunch, candidates steeled themselves for the day's real challenge: an afternoon of role-playing. Sue Wright, the clinical program's coordinator of admissions (and the producer of this annual event), said, "As far as we know, ours is the only program that uses role plays in the interview process."”

““[…] There are even zones on certain servers where people go to ERP.” “ERP?” “Erotic role play.” “You go into these games to have sex?””

“The second project, role play in packaway settings, was conducted over an extended period of time and moved the mosaic approach from a method, a way of collecting data, to an ethnographic methodology in which I was immersed in the setting and was able to understand the lived experiences of the children.”

“Everything that happens in the incident discussions and in the rôle plays is from then on regarded as a given fact. Thus, if in a rôle play two executives of Wilma do not succeed in solving the presented problem and get into an emotional dispute, this event is a fact that must be taken into consideration.”

“Chris Robson, one of our project teachers, found that her group of 10-year-old slow learners could not grasp the concept of a standard unit of weight until she set up a rôle play for them. She introduced ‘Weight Street’ to them. Weight Street had three sweet shops and no standard weights.”

““Yvon changes characters,” Denni insisted indignantly, his expression showing hurt . “I just dress up to set a rôle play.””

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