roster vs schedule

roster

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

  • To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set. 

  • 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. 

  • A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business. 

schedule

verb
  • To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. 

  • To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future. 

  • To create a time-schedule. 

  • To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law. 

noun
  • A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract. 

  • A serial record of items, systematically arranged. 

  • One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification. 

  • An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources. 

  • A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur. 

How often have the words roster and schedule occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )