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queue English

Meaning queue meaning

What does queue mean?
Definitions in simple English

queue Verb

— If you queue, then you wait in or join a line. A line of people queued by the box office. There was an argument here about someone cutting the queue just now.

queue

— noun a line of people or vehicles waiting for something — noun (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted — noun a braid of hair at the back of the head — verb (= line up) form a queue, form a line, stand in line Customers lined up in front of the store

Synonyms queue synonyms

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queue English » English

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Topics queue topics

What do people use queue to talk about?
Physical actions Move Not moving

Wait
States Time Relative time

Order, sequence

Conjugation queue conjugation

How do you conjugate queue?

queue · verb

Examples queue examples

How do I use queue in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There was not a long queue at the bus stop.
However, you have to queue.
Japanese and British people usually wait at a bus stop in a queue.
He was in the queue.
There was not a long queue at the stadium.
A long queue had formed in front of the shop.
The request queue was full.
The queue for buying tickets was unbelievably long.
They were standing in a queue.
Queue up!
The queue is growing.
Tom is tired of waiting in a queue.

Movie subtitles

You may be excused when you've put your patients first and worked your way through that weighing queue!
Six hours later, most of the people in the queue realized that there was not enough meat for them.
Since you've stood in a queue for six hours waiting to see her dance.
The woman who would work with him wouldn't queue to get a bit part.
Queue up and keep calm.
Queue up.
With corvettes at the end of the queue, I suppose.
There's a long queue.
I waited for hours in the queue for these tickets, Miss Scott.
Form a queue, along the wall.
There's a fair queue of nannies outside, sir.
The sick and groggy travelled from all over the world to queue at my door.
Naked, it must be hideous. Queue.
Put your rifles down and get over to the tea queue.
There's a queue.
A queue? What do you take me for?
One day a long queue of carriers approached us.
The woman who would work with him wouldn't queue to get a bit part. You women are all feather-brained romantics.
I did queue up one hour for this.
Cor! I waited for hours in the queue for these tickets, Miss Scott.
Common wrong queue.
There's such a demand that buyers queue up for their quota.
No, but if they'll queue up, I'll give a party.
Coo! There's a fair queue of nannies outside, sir. Shall I show 'em in?
What about the queue?
There was a queue, so we didn't wait. We went to a restaurant.
Ladies.. get back into the queue please.
March DH vouchers. Quickly, Pierrette. Get in the queue.
Form a queue, along the wall. Come on.
If you want cake, queue up in front of Auntie Dorothy.
Coo! There's a fair queue of nannies outside, sir.
Lucia, there was a queue there.
I gotta go, there's a queue here, I'm calling from a pay phone.
SHE JUMPED THE QUEUE.
No queue jumping. Keep in line.
There was a queue at the butcher's.
If I'd gone earlier or later, I wouldn't have had to queue.

News and current affairs

And, after two years of unemployment, the worker, accurately expecting to be at the end of every hiring queue, had lost hope and, for all practical purposes, left the labor market.
Instead of Europe opening its doors at this critical moment, Bulgaria's entrepreneurs must queue for weeks outside EU embassies begging for visas.
Because of an inadequate number of polling stations, I believe that in Harare and Chitungwiza alone more than 360,000 people stood in a queue to vote but never gained the opportunity to cast their ballot.
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are in the queue for WTO accession.
I was aboard the last flight from Croatia before war exploded there, and although I had a regular plane ticket, I found myself at the end of the queue to get on a plane.
Accepted asylum-seekers would then be placed in a queue and required to remain in the gateway country until an EU country accepts them.
Worse still, the rejection by Ireland of the Lisbon Treaty threatens to push the issue further back in the queue.
Just before the hearing begins, the paying customer can take his or her line-stander's place in the queue, and claim a front-row seat in the hearing room.

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