Timesheet vs. Roster

Timesheetnoun

A document that allows for the recording of hours worked on various tasks that is used as input for payroll, project accounting or client billing processes.

Rosternoun

A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.

Timesheet

A timesheet (or time sheet) is a method for recording the amount of a worker's time spent on each job. Traditionally a sheet of paper with the data arranged in tabular format, a timesheet is now often a digital document or spreadsheet.

Rosternoun

A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.

‘The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year.’;

Rosterverb

To place the name of (a person) on a roster.

‘I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month.’;

Rosternoun

A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

Rosternoun

a list of names;

‘his name was struck off the rolls’;