roster

noun

/ˈrɒstə(r)/

/ˈrɑːstər/

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a list showing the tasks that different people have to do at different times within an organization synonym rota
- a duty roster
- The boss has drawn up a duty roster.
Extra Examples
- Kelly has an excellent chance of making the opening-day roster.
- a roster for babysitting
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- impressive
- duty
- active
- …
verb + roster
- fill
- fill out
- make
- …
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a list of the names of people who are available to do a job, play in a team, etc.
Extra Examples
- They have a number of outstanding players on their roster.
- The firm has built up an impressive roster of clients over the past ten years.
- a roster of artists
- The record company confirmed that the band had been dropped from the roster.
- The team has ten rookies on the active roster.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- impressive
- duty
- active
- …
verb + roster
- fill
- fill out
- make
- …
See full entry

Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally denoting a list of duties and leave for military personnel): from Dutch rooster ‘list’, earlier ‘gridiron’, from roosten ‘to roast’, with reference to its parallel lines.

roster

verb

/ˈrɒstə(r)/

/ˈrɑːstər/

[usually passive] (British English)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they roster	/ˈrɒstə(r)/ /ˈrɑːstər/
he / she / it rosters	/ˈrɒstəz/ /ˈrɑːstərz/
past simple rostered	/ˈrɒstəd/ /ˈrɑːstərd/
past participle rostered	/ˈrɒstəd/ /ˈrɑːstərd/
-ing form rostering	/ˈrɒstərɪŋ/ /ˈrɑːstərɪŋ/

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to put somebody’s name on a roster
- be rostered (for something/to do something) The driver was rostered for Sunday.
Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally denoting a list of duties and leave for military personnel): from Dutch rooster ‘list’, earlier ‘gridiron’, from roosten ‘to roast’, with reference to its parallel lines.