Usually means: Switching roles, changing power dynamics.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. role reversal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. role reversal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. role reversal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. role-reversal: Wordnik
  5. role reversal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. role reversal: Dictionary.com
  7. Role reversal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. role reversal: Wiktionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Role-reversal, role reversal: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (role reversal)

▸ noun:  A situation in which two people adopt roles that are the reverse of the roles they normally assume in relation to one another.

Similar:
reversion, reexchange, reversing, reversal, about-face, turnaround, counterreversal, unreversal, turnabout, volte-face, more...

Opposite:
gender normativity, gender conformity

Types:
age role reversal, power role reversal, more...

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Similar:
reversion, reexchange, reversing, reversal, about-face, turnaround, counterreversal, unreversal, turnabout, volte-face, more...

Opposite:
gender normativity, gender conformity

Types:
age role reversal, power role reversal, more...



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