roster
UK/ˈɹɒs.tə//ˈɹɔ.stɚ/
roster noun: a 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.
Noun
roster (plural rosters)
- A 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.
- I'm number 12 on the roster for tonight's game.
- 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
- A 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.
- The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year.
- A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business.
- 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
- A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.
Verb
roster (third-person singular simple present rosters, present participle rostering, simple past and past participle rostered)
- To place the name of (a person) on a roster.
- I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month.
- New York Central rostered literally hundreds of engine subclassifications in contrast to the Spartan simplicity of Pennsy's ranks.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., pages 18–19
- To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets.
Proper noun capitalized: Roster
Roster
- A surname
roster meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
roster in Tamil
- வேலை முறைப் பட்டியல்
roster in Telugu
- రోస్టర్
roster in Malayalam
- list, schedule, listing
- റോസ്റ്റർ, ജോലിസമയവിവരപ്പട്ടിക, ഔദ്യോഗിക പട്ടിക, നാമാവലി, പട്ടിക, അനുക്രമണിക
roster in Kannada
- ಸರದಿಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಪಾಳಿಪಟ್ಟಿ
Examples of roster in a sentence
- 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:
- 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.2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Network News: Rail strikes halted to allow for "intensive negotiations"”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8:
Forms of roster
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rosters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rosters |
| present participle | rostering |
| past participle | rostered |
| past | rostered |
Origin of roster
Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.
Words formed from roster
Words that rhyme with roster
Questions about roster
- What does roster mean?
- Roster means a 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.
- What is roster in Tamil?
- Roster in Tamil is வேலை முறைப் பட்டியல். See Roster meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use roster in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is roster?
- Roster can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce roster?
- Roster is pronounced /ˈɹɒs.tə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of roster?
- The plural of roster is rosters.
Words near roster in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: roster (page history and authors); Roster (page history and authors); roster (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roster (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roster (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); roster (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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