transcription, транскрипция: [ ru:st ]
( roosts, roosting, roosted)
1.
A roost is a place where birds or bats rest or sleep.
N-COUNT
2.
When birds or bats roost somewhere, they rest or sleep there.
The peacocks roost in nearby shrubs.
VERB : V prep / adv
3.
If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to roost , or if their chickens have come home to roost , they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.
Appeasement has come home to roost...
PHRASE : come inflects
4.
If you say that someone rules the roost in a particular place, you mean that they have control and authority over the people there. ( INFORMAL )
Today the country’s nationalists rule the roost and hand out the jobs.
PHRASE : V inflects