Bedeutung von “queue” im englischen Wörterbuch

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“queue” im Englisch

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queuenoun [ C ]

uk ​ /kjuː/ us ​ /kjuː/ UK US line

B1 a line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something:

Are you in the queue for tickets?
There was a long queue of traffic stretching down the road.
If you want tickets you'll have to join the queue.
disapproving It makes me mad when someone jumps the queue (= goes straight to the front).

› a lot of people wanting something:

There's a queue of companies wanting to sell the product.

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queueverb [ I ]

uk ​ /kjuː/ us ​ /kjuː/ UK US line, US line up, also UK queue up

B2 to wait in a line of people, often to buy something:

Dozens of people were queueing up to get tickets.
We had to queue for three hours to get in.

› informal to want very much to do something:

[ + to infinitive ] There are thousands of young women queueing up to be models.

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(Definition von “queue” aus dem Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

“queue” im amerikanischen Englisch

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queuenoun [ C ]

us ​ /kju/ esp. Br

› a line of people or things waiting for something:

There was a long queue for tickets at the theater.
queue
verb [ I ] us ​ /kju/

›

Fans queued up to buy tickets.

(Definition von “queue” aus dem Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

“queue” im Business-Englisch

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queuenoun [ C ]

uk ​ /kjuː/ us ​

› 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

queueverb

uk ​ /kjuː/ us ​ 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.

(Definition von “queue” aus dem Cambridge Wörterbuch Business-Englisch © Cambridge University Press)

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