rôle play

rôle play (third-person singular simple present rôle plays, present participle rôle playing, simple past and past participle rôle played)

1. Dated form of roleplay.
   • 1959, F. Alexander Magoun, “Teaching and Learning”, in The Teaching of Human Relations by the Case Demonstration Method, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

     Children playing house are assuming parts but they are not rôle playing. They are only being themselves.

   • 1994, Phillip Brown, Richard Scase, “Organizational change and managerial careers”, in Higher Education and Corporate Realities: Class, Culture and the Decline of Graduate Careers, Florence: Taylor & Francis, published 2005, →ISBN, page 6:

     Managers are expected to be psychologically immersed in their jobs—rather than to rôle play as in bureaucracies—and it is for this reason that so much importance is attached to fostering appropriate organizational cultures, since it is through these rather than through explicitly stated rules and regulations that psychological involvement is to be obtained (Hofstede 1991).

   • 1998, Anne Gold, Jennifer Evans, “Working with People, Part One — Management Skills”, in Reflecting on School Management (Master Classes in Education Series), London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Falmer Press, →ISBN, page 44:

     The person offering the description rôle plays the person described, and one of the other two rôle plays the person trying to resolve the situation.

   • 2005, Emily Delacote, chapter 17, in A Gentle Cause of Chaos: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:

     “So why do you need to rôle play every single time?” I asked, reasonably, simply because I was, once again, feeling tired with this constant fantasy approach to sex.

rôle play (countable and uncountable, plural rôle plays)

1. Dated form of roleplay.
   • 1962, Management International, Wiesbaden, Hesse: Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, →OCLC, page 47:

     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.

   • 1990, Diane Montgomery, “Difficulties in learning and literacy skills”, in Children with Learning Difficulties (Special Needs in Ordinary Schools), London: Cassell Education; New York, N.Y.: Nichols Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 232:

     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.

   • 2005, Emily Delacote, chapter 17, in A Gentle Cause of Chaos: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:

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