Crossword clues for roster
roster
- Duty list
- Membership list
- Personnel list
- Team list
- Baseball yearbook listing
- Coach's list
- Membership roll
- List of team members
- List of eligible players
- Club list
- Team manager's menu
- Roll call listing
- Player list
- List of the guys on the team
- List of members
- List of a team's players
- Duty officer's list
- Baseball team's list of players
- Active players
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roster \Ros"ter\, n. [Perhaps a corruption of register; or cf. roll.] (Mil.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from Dutch rooster "table, list," originally "gridiron," from Middle Dutch roosten "to roast" (see roast (v.)). So called from the grid of lines drawn on a paper to make a list.
Wiktionary
n. 1 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; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class. 2 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. vb. To place the name of (a person) on a roster.
WordNet
n. a list of names; "his name was struck off the rolls" [syn: roll]
Usage examples of "roster".
Welcomed home by Creon the high priest, Shiva informed his human servants that he wanted to determine the full roster of his active enemies.
Making roster changes without also cultivating the proper atmosphere with our staff would cut into our ability to improve.
My evaluation of the current roster produced another startling result.
Instead of wreaking wholesale havoc on the roster, I concluded we could make selective changes.
The roster also lacked depth, and we needed more reserves who had the potential to become starters and stars.
I was confident we could fill the Packer roster with wonderful players and we could have a terrific staff of assistant coaches.
This is how the Stepping Stone approach crystallized into a methodical system involving roster improvement.
If I had wiped out the bulk of the roster, it would be impossible to secure the quantity and quality of replacements needed to make us contenders.
My roster analysis during the final weeks of the 1991 season convinced me the squad did not play up to its capabilities.
We now were a star in the free-agent market, our drive to rebuild the roster had received a major boost.
To upgrade our roster, I could use the draft, I could use trades, I could sign players not under contract to other teams--so-called street free agents--and I could use free agency, first the Plan B concept and then the free-agency method that now functions in the NFL.
I wanted to rely most heavily on the draft because I felt the long-term stability of the roster depended on the number of young, quality players we obtained, and the draft was the best method to acquire these youngsters.
And during our initial years in Green Bay, it also dictated some of our roster cuts.
So this is the roster from which Miami voters must choose new leadership.
Cube was pretty sure it was useful, because the Princesses had pointed the way here, and the two of them would complete the roster of nine Companions.