duty roster
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdutyandroster
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duty
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈdʒuː.ti/us/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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roster
noun[C]
uk/ˈrɒs.tər/us/ˈrɑː.stɚ/
a list of people's names, often with the jobs they have been given ...
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(Definition ofdutyandrosterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the case of bus drivers, enforcement is by access to employers' duty rosters and schedules.
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There are no formal duty rosters at holiday camps, where the relationship between officers and boys is as informal as possible.
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I have here thedutyrosterof the whole of the night staff.
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They staff this club according to adutyrostercovering seven days a week.
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They would have gone home on the basis of adutyrosterthat brings them in, in many cases, about mid-day.
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Secondly, there are the disputes that blow up locally—rows about thedutyroster, the level of staffing on a ward, where someone parks his bicycle, or a clash of personalities.
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Has there ever been any doubt that the sergeant-major drawing up adutyrostercan assign a man to any duty that his commanding officer wants him to perform?
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The rest of the camp doctors divided up the remaining areas of the camp (men's camp, women's camp, etc.), according to thedutyroster.
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As his name was at the top of thedutyroster, he was the first to be identified as a conspirator.
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Predictable duty rosters involving static staff in low-volume, low-threat ports constitute no deterrent to the organised smuggler nowadays.
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He learned about it when his members told him that they had new duty rosters and asked what they should do.
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There are no formal duty rosters at holiday camps, where the relationship between officers and boys is as informal as possible.
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In the case of bus drivers, enforcement is by access to employers' duty rosters and schedules.
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Superimposed night duty rosters may be a stress adversely affecting the welfare of both the doctor and the patient.
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I have been the subject of duty rosters.
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Surely, we should have got past the point where, too frequently, some trivial change in drivers' or guards' duty rosters brings a measure of spiteful disruption.
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I entirely understand the argument about administrative confusion, but if there is a shipwreck in the middle of the night the duty rosters must be upset.
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Causes seem to range from hospital doctors’ duty rosters, to supplementary income from private patients, to parents requesting particular appointment dates: holiday planning plays a major part in this.
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Duty rosters were organised to prevent friends and roommates being assigned to the same patrols.
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Egon often serves time with lawyers or executives who provide him with the information he needs, such as duty rosters for the national public record office.
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