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roster

noun
🔊/ˈrɒstə(r)/
🔊/ˈrɑːstər/
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  1. a list showing the tasks that different people have to do at different times within an organization 值勤名单synonym rota
    • a duty roster值勤表
    • The boss has drawn up a duty roster.老板草拟了一份名册。
    Extra Examples
    • Kelly has an excellent chance of making the opening-day roster.凯利进入首发阵容的机会很大。
    • a roster for babysitting保姆名册
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • impressive
    • duty
    • active
    • …
    verb + roster
    • fill
    • fill out
    • make
    • …
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  2. a list of the names of people who are available to do a job, play in a team, etc.候选名单
    Extra Examples
    • They have a number of outstanding players on their roster.他们的阵容中有许多出色的球员。
    • The firm has built up an impressive roster of clients over the past ten years.该公司在过去 10 年里开发了规模惊人的客户群。
    • a roster of artists艺术家花名册
    • The record company confirmed that the band had been dropped from the roster.唱片公司证实该乐队已从名册上删除。
    • The team has ten rookies on the active roster.该队正式名单上有 10 名新队员。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • impressive
    • duty
    • active
    • …
    verb + roster
    • fill
    • fill out
    • make
    • …
    See full entry
    3. Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally denoting a list of duties and leave for military personnel): from Dutch rooster ‘list’, earlier ‘gridiron’, from roosten ‘to roast’, with reference to its parallel lines.

roster

verb
🔊/ˈrɒstə(r)/
🔊/ˈrɑːstər/
[usually passive] (British English)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they roster
🔊/ˈrɒstə(r)/
🔊/ˈrɑːstər/
he / she / it rosters
🔊/ˈrɒstəz/
🔊/ˈrɑːstərz/
past simple rostered
🔊/ˈrɒstəd/
🔊/ˈrɑːstərd/
past participle rostered
🔊/ˈrɒstəd/
🔊/ˈrɑːstərd/
-ing form rostering
🔊/ˈrɒstərɪŋ/
🔊/ˈrɑːstərɪŋ/
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  1. to put somebody’s name on a roster将（姓名）列入值勤名单
    • be rostered (for something/to do something) The driver was rostered for Sunday.这名司机被安排在星期日值班。🔊🔊
    Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally denoting a list of duties and leave for military personnel): from Dutch rooster ‘list’, earlier ‘gridiron’, from roosten ‘to roast’, with reference to its parallel lines.