ROSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roster mean? 

• ROSTER (noun)
  The noun ROSTER has 1 sense:

1. a list of names

  Familiarity information: ROSTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A list of names

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

roll; roster

Context example:

his name was struck off the rolls

Hypernyms ("roster" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roster"):

batting order; card; lineup ((baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat)

death-roll (a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster)

muster roll (a list of names of officers and men in a military unit or ship's company)

church roll (a list of the members of church)

rota (a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties)

waiting list (a roster of those waiting to obtain something)

 Context examples 

The results peg 2007 OR10 as the largest unnamed world in our solar system and the third largest of the current roster of about half a dozen dwarf planets.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

You seem to have been involved with intense secret talks over the past weeks and months, possibly to take an important new position or, if you are self-employed, to add a powerful new client to your roster.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)