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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A list, especially of names.
  2. n. A list of the names of military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An obsolete form of roaster.
  2. n. In the British and the United States regular armies, a list showing the turn or rotation of service or duty of those who relieve or succeed each other; specifically, a military list or register showing or fixing the rotation in which individuals, companies, or regiments are called into service.
  3. n. In Massachusetts and Connecticut, a list of the officers of a division, brigade, regiment, etc., containing, under several heads, their names, rank, corps, place of abode, etc. These are called division rosters, brigade rosters, regimental or battalion rosters. Bartlett.
  4. n. Hence, any roll, list, or register of names.

Wiktionary

  1. n. 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; or a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game.
  2. n. 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.
  3. v. The act of placing a name on a roster.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mil.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a list of names

Etymologies

  1. From Dutch rooster “gridiron”. (Wiktionary)
  2. Dutch rooster, gridiron, roster (from the ruled paper used for a roster), from roosten, to roast. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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