Roster
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A roster is a list of names of people involved with an organization of some kind.

A roster can be a list of people and the times when they are required to work or a list of students in a classroom.

The term roster is often used to describe a list of people who participate in an event. Although rosters can be associated with non-competitive events, they are most commonly associated with athletics
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

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Examples could be a team
Team
A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks.A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team...

 roster or depth chart
Depth chart
In sports, a depth chart is used to show the placements of the starting players and the secondary players. Generally a starting player will be listed first or on top while a back-up will be listed below...

 in which the person's place on the team would be decided. The names of the places on a roster can be such terms as Starter or Backup, or for American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, First String, Second String, or Third String.

A "railway roster" can also refer to a detailed list of the types and wheel arrangements of steam, diesel or electric locomotives based at a particular shed, or of model locomotives on a particular model railway.

A roster is also used in video games. It is usually the amount of characters in the game.
Most games have small rosters but fighting games have very large ones.

See also

  • CANADEM Civilian Roster
  • Developmental roster
    Developmental roster
    In Major League Soccer, in addition to the senior roster, each team can carry a developmental roster of a certain number of young players whose contracts do not count against the salary cap...

  • Fred H. Roster
    Fred H. Roster
    Fred H. Roster is an American sculptor who was born in Palo Alto, California. He received an MA in ceramics from San José State University in 1968. He came to Hawaii in 1969 on his honeymoon and decided to stay. In 1970, he earned an MFA in sculpture from the University of Hawaii at Manoa...

     (born 1944), an American sculptor
  • Schedule (workplace)
    Schedule (workplace)
    A schedule, often called a rota, is a list of employees who are working on any given day, week, or month in a workplace. A schedule is necessary for the day-to-day operation of any retail store or manufacturing facility. The process of creating a schedule is called scheduling...

  • Roster is also the name of the contact list for the Instant Messaging Protocol XMPP
    Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
    Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol is an open-standard communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML . The protocol was originally named Jabber, and was developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999 for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging , presence...

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