Queue - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |kjuː|  American pronunciation of the word queue
Brit.  |kjuː|  British pronunciation of the word queue

noun

- a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
- (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
- a braid of hair at the back of the head

verb

- form a queue, form a line, stand in line (syn: line up)

Extra examples

We were forced to stand in a queue.

Three jobs remain in the printer queue.

The crowd was queuing at the snack bar.

I hate queueing up in the cold to get into a cinema.

We stood in a queue for half an hour.

You'll have to join the queue.

There was a long queue to get into the cinema.

At last we got to the front of the queue.

You'll have to join the housing queue.

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.

Some of the people queuing for tickets had been there since dawn.

We had to queue up for ages to get served.

The school is one of the best, and parents are queueing up to send their children there.

Actresses are queuing up for the part.

I think you were before me in the queue.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: queue
he/she/it: queues
present participle: queuing or queueing
past tense: queued
past participle: queued
noun
singular: queue
plural: queues
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