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# rota

noun (a rota, rotas — UK, Australia)

«rota» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#m1)
2. A regular turn-by-turn system of doing a job. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «rota» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rota/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«rota» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/rota.html) on Mova free.