- a variation of rote.
rota
Example Sentences
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Most parents lose sleep over the amount of piecemeal work required to cobble together a summer schedule; very few relish the planning and spreadsheets and carpool rota involved in keeping their kids safe and occupied.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
On Mondays, Tickner is on a cover rota, meaning she may have to take over a different lesson to that which she had planned to teach.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
The volunteers work on a four-week rota and take time to cut and sort out all the stories from two copies of each paper while being careful not to duplicate anything.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
When the Antrim links returned to the rota in 2019 after a 58-year absence, he flopped spectacularly amid the weight of such eager anticipation.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
He’d shown us a list of chores when we’d first arrived, and the students who were already there—“the veterans,” as Hannah called them—had long since worked out a rota which we kept to conscientiously.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing rota
