1
a
: a roll or list of personnel
b
: such a list giving the order in which a duty is to be performed
a duty roster
c
: the persons listed on a roster
2
: an itemized list
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Examples of roster in a Sentence
His name has been added to the team roster.
The team has a roster of 40 players.
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Wade is clearly good enough at basketball and school that Southern Mississippi wants him on the Golden Eagles roster.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Jan. 2025
About six months since her Achilles repair, Blakely is on Florida’s roster and posting training videos on her Instagram.
—Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
The 1999-00 Lightning won 19 games, suited up 54 players and literally had the roster covered from A to Z with Kaspars Astasenko to Andrei Zyuzin.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Stroman is set to be paid nearly $20 million in 2025, yet the Yankees left him off the World Series roster in 2024.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Jan. 2025
About six months since her Achilles repair, Blakely is on Florida’s roster and posting training videos on her Instagram.
—Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
The 1999-00 Lightning won 19 games, suited up 54 players and literally had the roster covered from A to Z with Kaspars Astasenko to Andrei Zyuzin.
—Tom Layberger, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Stroman is set to be paid nearly $20 million in 2025, yet the Yankees left him off the World Series roster in 2024.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Roster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roster. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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roster
noun
ros·ter
ˈräs-tər 
: a list usually of people belonging to some group
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