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noun

a list of persons or groups, as of military personnel or units with their turns or periods of duty.

any list, roll, or register: a roster of famous scientists; a roster of coming events.

Origin:
1720–30; < Dutch rooster list, roster, literally, gridiron, in reference to the ruled paper used, equivalent to roost(en) to roast + -er -er¹

Synonyms
1, 2. listing, slate, panel, record.

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But mostly, the roster is loaded with impact players who arrived in trades before they reached their potential.

He plans to double his roster of affiliated consultants by the end of the year.

As investors scaled back their risk exposure, the roster of falling currencies contained the usual suspects.

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But mostly, the roster is loaded with impact players who arrived in trades before they reached their potential.

He plans to double his roster of affiliated consultants by the end of the year.

As investors scaled back their risk exposure, the roster of falling currencies contained the usual suspects.

Brazil is a recent addition to the global roster of nations with huge oil prospects.

From this medicine can then build up a roster of treatments from the available drugs.

Included in the growing roster of potentially beneficial sponge molecules are ones that fight inflammation and cell division.

It had a technology that investors apparently lusted after, and a roster of blue-chip media partners.

It's tempting to run through the roster and syllabus and then let students out early.

Barely bothering to go through the motions of appealing to minorities, the roster featured a series of middle-aged white men.

Sampling fare from the city's diverse roster of restaurants costs extra-but you won't be able to resist.

In the past two decades, the roster of known planets in the galaxy has mushroomed.

From the screenshots, the stages and roster have not changed a bit apart from a visual graphic upgrade.

The roster of geek guest celebs has yet to be hashed out.

The roster of participants is terrific, both in terms of scope and also diversity.

Mercifully, the candidate roster was exhausted before the one-upmanship moved to boiling and flaying.

Linnaeus wasn't the first naturalist to try to roster and systematize nature.

So you can check out the full roster of speakers and listen to any or all of the talks in their entirety.

And while it's arguably unfair to expect a roster of signatories to a week-old group, it's certainly reasonable to expect a few.

Dyhrenfurth knew he needed ace mountaineers to fill out the expedition's roster.

The network began haemorrhaging writers, losing nearly a quarter of its roster before the week was out.

The roster once included forest buffalo, but they were hunted to extinction a century ago.

They lost not a wagon in that crossing, and during the almost six-month odyssey their roster increased by three newborn babies.

The mealtime crowds thin as the seasick roster grows.

McElroy will make a roster and he could develop into an effective starter.

The roster of collectors prepared to sell was also.

Cook it hot and rare, and you'll have a versatile meat for a roster of tasty dishes.

The roster of other attendees was not yet finalized.

More than the numbers, the key to piecing together that roster is versatility and specialists.

Every day this kid is on the roster and enrolled is a day slots are too full to allow in less-gifted but more serious students.

But this roster seems less impressive than it once did, because people now have more ways of watching movies at home.

My college still has students sign a roster and the professor turns it in to the administrative staff person.

The site boasts a healthy readership and a full roster of advertisers.

She disappeared from their faculty roster the following year.

One encouraging shift in the global development effort is that the donor roster is growing.

Palfrey claims her client roster is loaded with the names of powerful government insiders.

Click here to meet this year's roster of nuclear supervixens.

The key to the game's success is certainly going to be its roster.

Two female and two robot characters are added to the roster of choices for online personas to choose from, bringing the total to.

The character roster is quite varied, with a number of familiar faces and a few characters veering into ridiculous territory.

SecondTunes currently counts about a hundred artists on its roster.

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World English Dictionary

roster¹ (ˈrɒstə)

—n
1.	a list or register, esp one showing the order of people enrolled for duty
2.	marketing the list of advertising agencies regularly used by a particular company

—vb
3.	(tr) to place on a roster

[C18: from Dutch rooster grating or list (the lined paper looking like a grid)]

roster² (ˈrɒstə)

—n
	dialect (Northern English) a rascal

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Word Origin & History

roster

1727, from Du. rooster "table, list," originally "gridiron," from M.Du. roosten "to roast" (see roast). So called from the grid of lines drawn on a paper to make a list.

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