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. ![]()
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