roster

Meanings

Noun

• A list of individuals or groups, 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.
• 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.
• In mathematics a way of showing the elements of a set by listing the elements inside of brackets.

Verb

• To place the name of (a person) on a roster.
• In mathematics - to show the elements of a set by listing the elements inside brackets.

Origin

• Borrowed from Dutch rooster, from Middle Dutch roosten. More at roast.