roster

noun

1. 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.”

   “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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.

verb

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.”

   “New York Central rostered literally hundreds of engine subclassifications in contrast to the Spartan simplicity of Pennsy's ranks.”

2. (transitive)To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets.

name

1. A surname