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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#m1)

2) A regular turn-by-turn system of doing a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#x1)
- I'm on the washing-up rota tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#x2)
- Mum made a rota so we take turns with the dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#x3)
- The nurses' rota shows who works at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#x4)
- The teacher drew up a rota for playground jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#x5)
- Check the rota to see whose turn it is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#x6)
- If four children share a rota of eight days, each child has two turns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/1/)
- [Mum pins a rota on the fridge: "Freya this Friday, Sam next Friday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/6/)
- [A family rota, where each person chooses the film in turn, makes movie night fair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/10/)
- [Five went home grumpy, Mia went red, and her mum made a rota so everybody got a Saturday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/396-mia-gets-the-newest-console/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rota» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.