Why "for"?

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Newby travelseverywhere with a cellular phone and call-out roster for otherteam members; at home, a special beeper sits on his nightstand.

An article from Time about NEST.

Why the author used "for"? Isn't "of" more suitable?

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

No, 'for' is fine. Many learners grasp at 'of' as a default preposition, but native speakers often have other preferences. A roster for members = a roster for the purpose of contacting/identifiying/enumerating/ etc members.

Anonymous · Answer

Thank you Mister Micawber!

But I check the corpus (JustTheWord), and the examples are:

I managed to get a leave roster for you all

A roster for crusts had to be started as these contained more bread than the average thin slice.  Hundreds more, uncharged, had their names entered on the LAPD gang roster for future surveillance.   , which already selects the above-the-line agency roster for government departments, to do the same for direct agencies and sales promotion companies.    I wonder if you would make up a roster for the supervisors .  that Charlie was put in charge of the duty roster for his own section.

So, I take the word "for" as the meaning "which is given to"

While other examples of "roster of" are close to the meaning you mentioned:

 They may have noted gaps in the company's roster of artists which need to be filled.   The organisation and roster of labour was much the same as usual.   The company has traditionally used a roster of European agencies for advertising.   The roster of companies signed up to offer or make available the object-oriented NeXTstep environment grew still more impressive late on Wednesday when Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Epson America Inc and NEC Technologies Inc all said that they would offer NeXTstep on 80486 and Pentium personal computers from May 25; NeXTstep, $800, the development system, $2,000 will be distributed by Ingram Micro Inc, integrated by SHL Systemhouse Inc.    a buyout and arbitrage firm with a roster of investors that amounted to a Who's Who Among The Self-Made Rich.

Anonymous · Answer

Could it be the "cellular phone and call-out roster" so that the author chose to use "for"?

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