rota UK /ˈɹəʊtə/US /ˈɹoʊtə/ noun2 •(UK, Ireland) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.[The manager] instituted a rota for having the players attend supporters’ club meetings throughout the season, telling them it was part of the job of being a footballer. — 2014 •A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.Along the creek bed he came, plucking a rota, a zither of five strings with bone-yoke facings and a beaverskin carrying-bag thrown over his shoulder. — 2011 formsrotas
