roles
Positions to fill
Roles are parts played or functions assumed.
An actor plays a role in a film.
In life, people take on roles—parent, employee, mediator—that come with expected behaviors: She struggled to balance her roles as mother and executive.
Role can also mean function or purpose: What role does the spleen play in immunity?
A role model is someone whose behavior others imitate.
One who portrays characters
- actressFemale stage performer
- castPerformers, throw, or splint
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- partPiece of whole
leading · supporting · understudy · audition · script · performance · protagonist · antagonist
Paid position of employment
- positionLocation or stance
- dutiesRequired tasks or charges
- responsibilitiesDuties one must fulfill
- titleFormal honorific or name
function · capacity · professional · workplace · manager · employee · supervisor · delegation
Purpose or duty
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- boardFlat rigid panel
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- stakeholderParty with an interest
leadership · member · officer · chairperson · director · contributor · liaison · representative
actor
One who portrays characters
part · leading · supporting · understudy · audition · script · performance · protagonist · antagonist · ensemble
job
Paid position of employment
- positionLocation or stance
- dutiesRequired tasks or charges
- responsibilitiesDuties one must fulfill
title · function · capacity · professional · workplace · manager · employee · supervisor · delegation · hierarchy
function
Purpose or duty
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- boardFlat rigid panel
- governanceHow authority is exercised
stakeholder · leadership · member · officer · chairperson · director · contributor · liaison · representative · delegate
gender
Social identity category
- expectationsBeliefs about future outcomes
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- familyRelated people together
caregiver · provider · breadwinner · homemaker · parent · sibling · spouse · elder · patriarch · matriarch
player
Game participant
healer · tank · support · DPS · dungeon · party · build · stats · abilities · quest
- family dynamicsfamily dynamics, family therapy, sibling rivalry, parenting, parent-child bond
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- hiringhiring, job, interview, resume, application
- group sociologysocial groups, groups, teams, clubs, networks
- sociologysocial structure, social class, social institutions, social norms, social mobility
- org chartsorg chart, reporting structure, chain of command, hierarchy, boxes
rolesauthenticity
Quality of being genuine
essences · true nature · inner self · essence · souls
rolespurposelessness
State of lacking intention
formlessness · ambiguity · aimlessness · structurelessness · chaos
rolesactors
Those playing roles
performers · audience · players · spectators · offstage
- role modelPerson others emulate
- role playersThose enacting assigned characters
- play a rolePerform a part
- leading rolePrincipal character's part
- role reversalsExchanged functions between parties
- lead rolePrincipal character in production
role, enroll, enrollment, enrolled, enrolling, enrolls, role-playing, prole, proles