queue

queue: ▪ I. queue queue ¹ [kjuː] noun [countable]

1. a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc; = line AmE:

• There may be long queues outside stores at sale times.

ˈdole queue

ECONOMICS used to refer to the number of people who are unemployed; = unemployment line AmE:

• Another 21,300 people joined the dole queue in May.

2. COMPUTING a list of jobs that a computer has to do in a particular order:

• the number of jobs in the batch queue

[m0] ▪ II. queue queue ² verb queued _PTandPP queuing _PRESPART or queueing

1. [intransitive] also queue up to form or join a line of people or vehicles waiting to do something or go somewhere:

• Customers queued for hours to buy the new toy.

• I queued up at the travel centre to pick up my tickets.

2. [transitive] COMPUTING if a computer queues a job, it puts it in a list of jobs that are to be done in a particular order:

• Input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system.

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queue UK US /kjuː/ noun [C]

► UK (US line) a line of people who are waiting for something: »There was a huge queue of people stretching down the road from the bank.

► UK (US line) a number of people who want to do or have something: »Rarely does a company that is suffering from such mismanagement attract a queue of eager buyers.
»She would not be a preferential creditor and would have to join the queue of other creditors.
be at the front/back of the queue »It's public-sector workers who are always at the back of the queue when pay rises are being handed out.
be the first/last in the queue »Fortunately, they were first in the queue of creditors.

► IT a list of jobs that a computer has to do: »a print queue

► UK COMMUNICATIONS a number of people who are waiting to speak to someone on the phone: »Please hold, you are in a queue and your call will be answered as soon as possible.

→ See also DOLE QUEUE(Cf. ↑dole queue)

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queue UK US /kjuː/ verb UK (US stand in line, also UK queue up)

► [I] to join a line of people who are waiting for something: »Private investors would regularly queue outside their banks in order to rush their application forms in before the deadline.

► [I] to join a number of people who are waiting for or to do something: »Competitors queue up to steal clients and key employees.

► [T] IT to arrange tasks in order: »The server will not allow me to queue print jobs.

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Queue — Queue, v. t. To fasten, as hair, in a queue. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Queue — Queue, n. [F. See {Cue}.] (a) A tail like appendage of hair; a pigtail. (b) A line of persons waiting anywhere. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Queue — (frz., spr. köh), Schwanz; das Ende einer Truppenkolonne etc.; Reihe hintereinander aufgestellter, auf Einlaß wartender Personen; der Billardstock; das Saitenbrett (an Geigen etc.) … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
Queue — (kö), frz., Schweif; der hintere Theil einer Truppe, eines langen Zugs überhaupt. Vergl. Billard … Herders Conversations-Lexikon

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