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verb ADV. patiently | up People queued up outside. VERB + QUEUE have to PREP. for We had to queue for tickets., noun ADJ. endless, long | growing, lengthening | orderly Please form an orderly queue. | bus, checkout, cinema, etc. | bread, dinner, food the country's soaring prices and growing food queues | traffic | dole More unemployed people are joining the dole queue each week. VERB + QUEUE form, line up in | join, stand in, wait in He had to join the queue for the toilets. | jump Don't jump the queue?take your turn like everyone else! QUEUE + VERB form | build up, grow Long queues are building up on most of Britain's motorways. | move The queue's not moving at all. | stretch The queue stretched for more than a mile. PREP. in a/the ~ the people in the queue | ~ for the queue for tickets | ~ of a long queue of shoppers PHRASES the back/end of the queue, the front/head of the queue
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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queue(UK)
verbs
stand/wait in a queue
• She stood in the queue at the checkout.
be in a queue
• I've been in this queue for fifteen minutes.
form a queue
• Other passengers for the train were forming a queue.
join a queue
• He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets.
take your place in a queue
(= join it )
• I walked to the bus stop and took my place in the queue.
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.
a queue forms
• A queue had formed outside the shop.
a queue stretches somewhere
• The queue stretched the full length of the building.
adjectives
long/big
• Already a long queue had formed outside the concert hall • There was a big queue.
small
• There was a small queue of people waiting to see the doctor.
an orderly queue
(= with no bad behaviour or pushing in front of other people )
• She told the children to form an orderly queue.
phrases
the front/head of the queue
• He pushed his way to the front of the 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.
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