(v. i.) To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.
(n.) See Roisterer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Long before he first shrugged on Al Swearengen's stripy jacket and oiled his soup-straining moustache, McShane had always had his pick of cads and roister-doisters.
(2) Tories and their commentators roistered with delight at the non-shambles of Osborne's spending review.
(3) The survey was conducted in two Metropolitan courts; one in an area frequented by vagrants, and the other in a mixed middle-class and working-class area.Few of the offenders were casual roisterers and the majority had a serious drinking problem.
(4) (A 2007 survey for AA Legal Services of 2,600 elderly parents and adult children revealed that 70% of offspring fear that they will inherit only their roistering parents' debts .)
(5) A leadership election without him could all too easily be portrayed, both by his admirers and the party's opponents, as having no legitimacy: of playing Henry IV without Falstaff or, to be more exact, Prince Hal – the wayward roisterer who, by grace of state, is transformed into "this star of England".
Roster
Definition:
(n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
(2) Hospital employees were selected from corporate rosters provided by a major contract foodservice company.
(3) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(4) All these interacting pieces just require a tighter set of communication than we’ve ever had to do before.” With content coming in and a full roster of staff, the engineering focus shifted to testing the online infrastructure .
(5) What I have been trying to do is ensure when at some point we make a change in daytime for whatever reason Radio 2 will have a strong roster of alternative broadcasters many of whom are female.” But asked if the next daytime presenter would be a woman, Shennan said: “I’m not saying that.
(6) A ten-year examination of committee membership and turnover in individual committee membership rosters points out those committees whose rate of turnover is greatest.
(7) Skills needed by physicians to address and prevent our communities' leading causes of premature death--injuries, cancer, cardiovascular disease, homicide, and suicide--are not in the typical roster of medical school learning experiences.
(8) Hunt will argue that trainees will still be able to earn the same money as now, despite banding disappearing, by still receiving extra money from the on-call supplement, out-of-hours payments, “flexible pay premia” – financial inducements to persuade juniors to choose certain branches of medicine suffering from major shortages of doctors – additional rostered hours and the extra 11%.
(9) The Bolton player may end up featuring more in the Gold Cup than these World Cup qualifiers, but who knows what twists and turns lie ahead — it’s not as if a year ago anyone was anticipating Landon Donovan not being picked for a squad he was eligible for... Here’s the US roster in full: GOALKEEPERS: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Sean Johnson (Chicago Fire) DEFENDERS: DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Clarence Goodson (Brondby), Michael Parkhurst (Augsburg) MIDFIELDERS: Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Stuart Holden (Bolton), Jermaine Jones (Schalke), Sacha Kljestan (Anderlecht), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City) FORWARDS: Jozy Altidore (AZ Alkmaar), Terrence Boyd (Rapid Vienna), Clint Dempsey (Tottenham Hotspur), Herculez Gomez (Santos), Eddie Johnson (Seattle Sounders FC) More on Belgium in a minute 12.25am BST Preamble Hello, Cleveland!
(10) It often fell to Woodward to defend the model publicly, insisting transfer funds were available and that the tide of cash from an ever expanding roster of sponsors would comfortably service the debt and leave money to spare.
(11) A mail and telephone survey was conducted to validate the roster in one such health center.
(12) Because passive smoking may also have other health consequences, the authors examined the effect of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke during childhood on adult risk of ulcerative colitis in a case-control study of 172 cases drawn in 1986-1987 from the rosters of North Carolina chapters of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America and 131 peer-nominated neighborhood controls.
(13) He's determined to impose pressure on Miami to improve roster and spend, sources say.
(14) Gailey spent three seasons in charge of the Bills, but the first two were spent building towards the third as the franchise began to overturn it's roster after always coming close, but failing to reach the playoffs under Dick Jauron .
(15) Nurse management information systems provide data on skill mix, rostering requirements, ward costs and patient dependency levels, enabling a nursing strategy to be planned for the ward.
(16) Cincinnati had a young roster last season and no key pieces have been removed.
(17) The question of what sort of an impact a hitting coach can have on a player or a roster is one that's been debated around baseball for some time.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Craig Hodges Age: 53 Former NBA teams: Clippers, Bucks, Suns, Bulls Chicago’s former three-point specialist is the only member of the roster to sue the NBA .
(19) 3) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 The Cowboys have enough talent on their roster to be a play-off team.
(20) Preparation for the project included conversion of an unused hut into a kindergarten and construction of furniture by village men, registration of preschool children, preparation of educational materials, and organization of a kitchen and duty roster for the feeding program.