also roll-call
(~s)
1.
If you take a ~, you check which of the members of a group are present by reading their names out.
We had to stand in the snow every morning for ~.
N-VAR
2.
A ~ of a particular type of people or things is a list of them. (JOURNALISM)
Her list of pupils read like a roll-call of the great and good.
N-SING: N of n