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A queue is a UK waiting line: join the queue; jump the queue; a queue for tickets; queue up (verb). US English uses line; a queue-jumper is the rude person who pushes in. Traffic can queue on a slip road. Do not write “a line of queue”. Cue is a different word (a signal, or a snooker stick) — spelling trap in exams.

Meaning

A line of people waiting for something (UK).

Examples

• “There was a long queue at the post office on Monday morning.”
• “We queued for twenty minutes at passport control.”
• “It is rude to jump the queue at the post office.”

Good to know

join / jump the queue; queue up. US: line. Spelling trap: cue (signal / snooker). Not “a line of queue”.

Near in meaning

line

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