Lineup
Lineup noun - (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat.
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Roster and lineup are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Roster" instead a noun "Lineup".
Nearby Word: line
Roster
Roster noun - A record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system.
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The team had a roster that changed from time to time, with character leaving the team and others replacing them, until finally the lineup stabilized for the last two years of the book's run.
- The 2010 World Series champion San Francisco Giants, a team literally described in the media as "a bunch of castoffs and misfits", as the roster was cobbled together throughout the year with an ever-changing lineup playing the games.
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At the same time, they intentionally didn't include Barry Bonds in the roster lineup and instead replaced him with a generic batter, because he was suspected of using steroids.
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