roster
/ˈɹɔ.stɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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
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.
name
A surname
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɔ.stɚ/
- British English: /ˈɹɒs.tə/