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queue
verb [I] /kjuː/ UK (US line, US line up, also UK queue up)Definition
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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.WaitingStaying and remaining › informal to want very much to do something: [+ to infinitive] There are thousands of young women queueing up to be models.Wanting thingsHoping and hopefulness
(Definition of queue verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Waiting
Synonyms and related words:
- await verb
- hang around (somewhere) phrasal verb
- hang on phrasal verb (WAIT)
- hold off phrasal verb (NOT DO)
- hold out for sth phrasal verb
- hover verb
- mill around phrasal verb
- ready adjective (PREPARED)
- sit back phrasal verb (WAITING)
- sit sth out phrasal verb (SITUATION)
- stand by phrasal verb (BE READY)
- stand verb (PLACE)
- time and tide wait for no man idiom
- wait for it idiom
- wait in phrasal verb
- wait on sth phrasal verb
- wait sth out phrasal verb
- wait up phrasal verb
- wait verb
- wait your turn idiom
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