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-cast

-cast suffix: forming words for audiovisual content distributed to an audience, usually in a manner denoted by the word stem.

Suffix

-cast

  1. Forming words for audiovisual content distributed to an audience, usually in a manner denoted by the word stem.

Origin of -cast

Back-formation from broadcast.

Questions about -cast

What does -cast mean?
-cast means forming words for audiovisual content distributed to an audience, usually in a manner denoted by the word stem.
What part of speech is -cast?
-cast is a suffix.

Words near -cast in the dictionary

  1. -carnil
  2. -carp
  3. -carpic
  4. -carpous
  5. -carps
  6. -cast
  7. -cation
  8. -cavir
  9. -cc
  10. -ccino
  11. -ce

Source and license

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