After the show, there was a queue to buy the clothes and last year's total was doubled.Kylesku was notorious, and approaching cars raced to be in the front of the queue to avoid a frustrating wait.Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours.Thousands queued for tickets to see the final.He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.Everyone would be trying to use the lift at that point - probably queuing for it.We had to queue for hours in the rain.They are just queuing at the door, waiting to be let in.The Caf Gandoplhi is Glasgow's cooling stream bit, assuming you don't mind queuing.One of the other passengers who was queueing to get on the train suddenly had a heart attack.→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus queue queue up for something Actresses are queuing up for the part. 2 if people are queuing up to do something, they all want to do it very much queue up to do something The school is one of the best, and parents are queuing up to send their children there. queue (up) to do something We had to queue up for ages to get served. ○○ verb ( also queue up ) British English 1 LINE WAIT to form or join a line of people or vehicles waiting to do something or go somewhere SYN line up American English queue for Some of the people queuing for tickets had been there since dawn.Rayleen helped too, or rather her uniform did, giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the queue.Why not save money - and jump the queue today.No-one walked the corridors or stood in queues and the Headmaster almost seemed friendly, if this is possible to believe.At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile.Credit-checking agencies, credit-card processors and other heavy telecoms users have been at the front of the queue.Another person joined the queue and the old lady immediately behind him began to look restive.Meredith, recalling her brief conversation with Deanes in the queue, felt compelled to defend him.Three girls lost two weeks for talking in the medicine queue whilst waiting for doses.There was a long queue for the toilets.Before long, lengthy queues began to form before opening time.There was a queue of about fifteen people at the bus stop.The women who were waiting outside the toilets began to form a queue.the back/end of the queue Get to the back of the queue! be first in a queue I wanted to be first in the queue when the doors opened. phrases the front/head of the queue He pushed his way to the front of the queue. an orderly queue (=with no bad behaviour or pushing in front of other people ) She told the children to form an orderly queue. small There was a small queue of people waiting to see the doctor. adjectives long/big Already a long queue had formed outside the concert hall There was a big queue. a queue stretches somewhere The queue stretched the full length of the building. a queue forms A queue had formed outside the shop. jump the queue (=go to the front rather than joining the end of a queue ) An argument developed when she tried to jump the queue. take your place in a queue (=join it ) I walked to the bus stop and took my place in the queue. join a queue He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets. form a queue Other passengers for the train were forming a queue. be in a queue I've been in this queue for fifteen minutes. 3 technical TD a list of jobs that a computer has to do in a particular order the print queue 4 a number of telephone calls to a particular number that are waiting to be answered → the dole queue COLLOCATIONS verbs stand/wait in a queue She stood in the queue at the checkout. queue for the queue for kidney transplant operations It is possible to jump the queue (=get something before people who have been waiting longer ) if you are prepared to pay for your treatment. 2 British English all the people who are waiting to have or get something You’ll have to join the housing queue. the front/head/back/end of a queue At last we got to the front of the queue. queue of a queue of people waiting for the bus queue for the queue for the toilets queue to do something There was a long queue to get into the cinema. ○ S3 noun 1 LINE WAIT British English a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc, or a line of vehicles waiting to move SYN line American English be/stand/wait in a queue We stood in a queue for half an hour.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Computers queue queue 1 / kjuː /
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