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Roster vs Docket - What's the difference?

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Roster is a related term of docket.


As nouns the difference between roster and docket

is that roster is roaster (for coffee beans etc) while docket is (obsolete) a summary; a brief digest.

As a verb docket is

to make an entry in a docket.

roster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year.

    See also

    * rota

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place the name of (a person) on a roster.
  • I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month.

    Anagrams

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    docket

    English

    (wikipedia docket)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
  • (legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
  • (legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
  • An agenda of things to be done.
  • A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
  • See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make an entry in a docket.
  • To label a parcel etc.
  • to docket goods
  • To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
  • to docket letters and papers
    (Chesterfield)
  • To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
  • judgments regularly docketed
  • To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
  • (Webster 1913)