rostering

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The process of drawing up a roster, assigning people to duties, shifts, or turns of service.

   Careful rostering ensures that no employee works two conflicting shifts in one day.

   The hospital's rostering system distributes night duties fairly among the nurses.

   Similarscheduling

   Note

   A noun that can be counted. Its plural, rosterings, names separate arrangements of who does what and when. Michael Meehan's Below the Styx (2011) carries it out of the workplace and into family life, with the "domestic rosterings" of ferrying kids to school. Unlike the verb form, it is modified by adjectives instead of taking an object: careful rostering, domestic rosterings.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of roster.

   The duty manager is rostering staff to cover the overnight shifts.

   Rostering the volunteers fairly meant juggling everyone's availability.

   Note

   The -ing form does two grammatical jobs. After be it marks an action in progress (the manager is rostering staff). As a gerund it names the activity itself. In both uses it keeps the direct object of roster, and that object is what separates it from the noun for the process, which has the plural rosterings. Mathematics borrows the verb as well: rostering a set means listing its elements inside brackets.

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