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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A list, especially of the names of players on a sports team or of the personnel in a military unit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of roaster.
  • noun In the British and the United States regular armies, a list showing the turn or rotation of service or duty of those who relieve or succeed each other; specifically, a military list or register showing or fixing the rotation in which individuals, companies, or regiments are called into service.
  • noun In Massachusetts and Connecticut, a list of the officers of a division, brigade, regiment, etc., containing, under several heads, their names, rank, corps, place of abode, etc. These are called division rosters, brigade rosters, regimental or battalion rosters. Bartlett.
  • noun Hence, any roll, list, or register of names.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A list of names, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; or a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game.
  • noun A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.
  • verb The act of placing a name on a roster.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a list of names

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Dutch rooster, gridiron, roster (from the ruled paper used for a roster), from roosten, to roast; akin to German rösten and English roast.]

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From Dutch rooster “gridiron”.

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