Timesheet vs. Roster — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Timesheet and Roster
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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.
Roster
A list, especially of the names of players on a sports team or of the personnel in a military unit.
Timesheet
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.
Roster
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.
I'm number 12 on the roster for tonight's game.
Roster
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.
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Roster
A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business.
Roster
(math) A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.
Roster
(transitive) To place the name of (a person) on a roster.
I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month.
Roster
To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets.
Roster
A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.
Roster
A list of names;
His name was struck off the rolls
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