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rostering

rostering is the present participle and gerund of roster.

Meaning of roster

Verb

roster (third-person singular simple present rosters, present participle rostering, simple past and past participle rostered)

  1. (transitive) To place the name of (a person) on a roster.
    • I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month.
  2. (transitive) To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets.

See all 7 meanings of roster

Noun

rostering (plural rosterings)

  1. The process of forming a roster.
    • ...talking about the business of ferrying kids to school and other domestic rosterings of the kind.2011, Michael Meehan, Below the Styx, →ISBN, page 246

Forms of rostering

pluralrosterings

Phrases with rostering

Questions about rostering

What does rostering mean?
Rostering means the process of forming a roster.
What is rostering the present participle and gerund of?
Rostering is the present participle and gerund of roster.
What part of speech is rostering?
Rostering is a noun.
What is the plural of rostering?
The plural of rostering is rosterings.

Words near rostering in the dictionary

  1. roster
  2. roster on
  3. rosterable
  4. rostered
  5. rostered on
  6. rostering
  7. rostering on
  8. rosterings
  9. rosterite
  10. rosters
  11. rosters on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rostering (page history and authors); roster (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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