roster

A list of people who belong to a team, group, or organization.

• His name is on the roster.
• The coach added three players to the roster.
• We checked the club’s roster of members.

How to use it: on a roster (Her name is on the team roster.)

Similar words: list, roll

Common phrases: team roster, player roster, on the roster

A list showing who must do particular jobs and when.

• Check the cleaning roster.
• My name is on tomorrow’s kitchen roster.
• They made a roster so everyone shared the chores.

Similar words: duty list, schedule

Common phrases: duty roster, cleaning roster, weekly roster

A plan showing the dates and times when each worker must work.

• The new roster is ready.
• The manager changed our shift roster yesterday.
• Are you working nights on next week’s roster?

Similar words: shift schedule, timetable

Common phrases: shift roster, staff roster, work roster

A list inside brackets showing all the members of a mathematical group.

• Write the set in roster form.
• The roster lists all five numbers inside braces.
• Can this infinite set be written as a roster?

Common phrases: roster notation, set roster, roster form

To put someone’s name on a list of members or people assigned to work.

• They rostered me for cleaning duty.
• She has been rostered to work on Friday.
• Can you roster another nurse for the night shift?

How to use it: roster someone for something (They rostered me for kitchen duty.); roster someone to do something (The manager rostered us to work on Sunday.)

Similar words: schedule, assign

Common phrases: roster someone for something, roster someone on, roster someone to work

To show a mathematical group by listing its members inside brackets.

• Roster the set inside braces.
• We rostered all the even numbers below ten.
• Can you roster the elements of this set?

Similar words: list, enumerate

Common phrases: roster a set, roster the elements