queuenoun [ C ]
uk/kjuː/us/kjuː/UK US lineB1 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 upB2 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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