Meaning of roster | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname
2. 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.
3. list, roll
4. 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.
5. stripe
6. A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business.
7. A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.
8. feminine singular of listo
9. third-person singular present indicative

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“[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.”

“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.”

“The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year.”

“Before uni starts check your work⟳ roster with your uni schedule⟳ to make⟳ sure there are no clashes with your classes.”

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