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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Roster" Quotes from Famous Books



... realize it, but a nickname is a round-about Anglo-Saxon way of telling a fellow you love him. He was Cutty, but only among his dear intimates, mind you; to the world at large, to presidents, kings, ambassadors, generals, and capitalists he is known by another name. You will find it on the roster of the Royal Geographical; on the title page of several unique books on travel, jewels, and drums; in magazines and newspapers; on the membership roll of the Savage in London and the Lambs in New York. But you will not find it in this story; because it would not be ...
— The Drums Of Jeopardy • Harold MacGrath

... addressing her husband. "Luncheon is almost ready. I'm so glad you got away early from barracks. I see so little of you now. Never mind. It will be all right next week. We shall have two more captains back from leave to help us. You see I'm beginning to know the roster almost as well ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville

... possibility of my own classmates, now also risen to the dignity of third-classmen, falling in next to me. To perfect his plan, then, the first sergeant had the senior plebe in the company call at his "house," and take from the roster an alphabetical list of all the plebes in the company. With this he (the senior plebe) was to keep a special roster, detailing one of his own classmates to fall in next to me. Each one detailed for such duty was to serve one week—from Sunday morning ...
— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper



Words linked to "Roster" :   roll, death-roll, list, listing, batting order, card, muster roll, rota, lineup, church roll



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