Etymology Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotor and ruote.
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Ireland, UK A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
on a rota basis
[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 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian:
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music 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, A. A. Attanasio, The Wolf and the Crown (The Perilous Order of Camelot):