Roster Meaning
/ˈɹɒs.tə/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.
nounA list of the jobs to be performed by members of an organization and often with the date and time that they are expected to perform them.
Sentence Examples
The teacher checks the class roster.
I saw Tom's name on the roster.
There's no one on the roster who can play defense.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The coach checked the ____ to see which players were available for the game on Saturday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The manager posted the weekly ____ so staff could see their assigned shifts.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Its 50 H-7 2-8-8-2's (30 of which found their way onto the Union Pacific roster in 1945) were simple mainly because a tunnel in the Alleghenies would not accommodate the low-pressure cylinders of any Mallet larger than a 2-6-6-2."
— 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 60, referring to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway:
"As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan."
— 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131:
"[So many of] the crew, men and officers alike, read them as to make me feel safe in asserting unreservedly that the Nathan James numbered in her company more Turgenev scholars than any other vessel on the United States Navy's entire roster of ships."
— 2013, William Brinkley, The Last Ship, Penguin, →ISBN, page 132:
"The result was that trains ran as normal on November 7 and 9, although there was still disruption on Saturday November 5, owing to the short notice as rosters were hurriedly rewritten. Rosters are typically agreed a week in advance."
— 2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Network News: Rail strikes halted to allow for "intensive negotiations"”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8:
"Before uni starts check your work roster with your uni schedule to make sure there are no clashes with your classes."
— 2017 February 22, “5 things all supermarket workers should know before uni starts”, in SDA, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2022:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The coach checked the ____ to see which players were available for the game on Saturday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The manager posted the weekly ____ so staff could see their assigned shifts.