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单词 queue
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queuenoun [ C ]

uk/kjuː/us/kjuː/UK US line

B1 a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something:

Are you in the queue for tickets?
There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.
If you want tickets you'll have to join the queue.
disapproving It makes me mad when someone jumps the queue (= goes straight to the front).

a lot of people wanting something:

There's a queue of companies wanting to sell the product.

More examples

  • Form an orderly queue.
  • There was a queue of people waiting patiently for the bus to arrive.
  • When the doors opened she barged her way to the front of the queue.
  • I was waiting in the bus queue when two men pushed in in front of me.
  • She was at the head of the queue but I was at the tail end.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Things collected in lines or rings

  • column
  • crocodile
  • file
  • line
  • rank
  • ring
  • rope
  • row 1
  • single file
  • string
  • thread
  • tier
  • train

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queueverb [ I ]

uk/kjuː/us/kjuː/UK US line, US line up, also UK queue up

B2 to wait in a line of people, often to buy something:

Dozens of people were queueing up to get tickets.
We had to queue for three hours to get in.

informal to want very much to do something:

[ + to infinitive ] There are thousands of young women queueing up to be models.

More examples

  • We queued for half an hour waiting for a free space in the car park.
  • He queued for two hours and all for nothing - there were no seats left.
  • Queue here for signed copies of his book.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Waiting

  • await
  • hang
  • hang around (somewhere)
  • hang on
  • hang round (somewhere)
  • hold
  • lounge
  • mark time idiom
  • mill
  • mill around
  • ready
  • sit
  • sit back
  • stand
  • wait in
  • wait list
  • wait on sth
  • wait sth out
  • wait up
  • wait list

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