rota

«rota» in Mova's school dictionary: a list showing who has to do a job and when, so that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a rota, rotas — UK, Australia)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, NZ) A rota is a list showing who has to do a job and when, so that people take turns. tree →

2) A regular turn-by-turn system of doing a job. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life schools have rotas for tidying up, watering plants or class monitors; families make a washing-up rota; workers have shift rotas. In the USA people say «roster» or «schedule». Phrases: «a cleaning rota», «on the rota», «a duty rota», «draw up a rota».

examples

• Our class has a rota for feeding the fish. tree →
• I'm on the washing-up rota tonight. tree →
• Mum made a rota so we take turns with the dog. tree →
• The nurses' rota shows who works at night. tree →
• The teacher drew up a rota for playground jobs. tree →
• Check the rota to see whose turn it is. tree →
• If four children share a rota of eight days, each child has two turns. tree →

note

Countable: rotas. Mainly British, Irish, Australian and NZ English; American English uses «roster» or «schedule». Maths: share jobs equally by dividing days by people.

In the corpora

• Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week.
• Mum pins a rota on the fridge: "Freya this Friday, Sam next Friday.
• A family rota, where each person chooses the film in turn, makes movie night fair.
• Five went home grumpy, Mia went red, and her mum made a rota so everybody got a Saturday.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rota» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.