I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus queue British English (= a line of people waiting for a bus )
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We were chatting while we stood in the bus queue.
joined the dole queue
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As two factories closed today, 500 people joined the dole queue .
the front of the line/queue
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It took ages to get to the front of the queue.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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It says a long queue is forming.
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Before long , lengthy queues began to form before opening time.
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I took a tramcar a second time; when it stopped I saw a long queue of mostly Black men.
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They're great long queues of people waiting to go into hospital. soc: No, they're not.
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The queue in front of the bank hasn't budged since the beginning of June, and it's a very long queue.
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Hopefully, there will be no long queues for refreshments as these will be available for sale all the afternoon.
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In its heyday it was so popular long queues built up outside its shops.
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The worse things got the longer became the queue .
■ NOUN
dole
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Dragged off the dole queue and hating every minute.
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The monthly publication of the unemployment figures provides a depressing barometer of the dole queue .
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So here's the proof that not all one-miss blunders end up on the dole queue .
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Secondary school classes have also grown, with more pupils staying on rather than face the dole queue .
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Leaving work and consigning yourself to the dole queue is obviously risky.
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Why does not he admit that since last year's Budget more than 500,000 people have been added to the dole queue ?
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Cash reserves have been savaged by massive rises in social security benefits because of ever-growing dole queues and interest repayments on debt.
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Whitehall officials were unable to explain it fully and refused to speculate when dole queues will start shortening.
■ VERB
form
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He had brought no money, so he was not allowed to join the untidy crocodile of children forming the dinner queue .
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Other passengers for the train were forming a queue .
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They formed a queue outside the cinema, pockets of greasy overcoats and grubby kaftans bulging with flagons.
join
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They had travelled to Berlin merely in order to join the queue of refugees trying to get home.
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It's because I didn't join the queue .
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Armed with a fistful of papers you now have to join the queue to fetch the elusive gadget.
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I signed more pieces of paper and went downstairs to join the queue outside the clothing store.
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Well-if I wanted to join the queue to sign on for work, I needed an address first.
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Outright batsmen joined the queue , and the supposedly slow bowlers were marking out what looked like suspiciously long run-ups.
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Edward Woodward is the latest star to join the queue for the confessional.
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Maggie joined the short queue in front of him.
jump
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Such old-boy networks were one way of jumping the promotion queue , of obtaining sponsorship.
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The duchess caused more ill-feeling and was jeered when she jumped hour-long queues on the slopes.
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Why not save money - and jump the queue today.
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Rayleen helped too, or rather her uniform did, giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the queue .
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We can not jump the queue .
stand
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I'd stand in the lunch queue at school in my pegs while everyone else was in these horrible big flares.
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No-one walked the corridors or stood in queues and the Headmaster almost seemed friendly, if this is possible to believe.
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We stood in the customs queue , grasping passports in sweaty palms.
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The hostess of the coffee place thought they were waiting for a table and corrected them for not standing in the queue .
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Chapter eight Delia Sutherland stood in the immigration queue at Nassau Airport.
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Stewart had filled in the V62 form while standing in the queue moments before staging the hold-up, the jury heard.
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Why stand in a bus queue or sit in a traffic jam when you can walk almost as quickly?
wait
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Little chills ran up and down her spine, as she waited in the queue for her lunch.
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Can you believe they make him wait in the queue , just like everybody else?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
join a queue
jump the queue
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My official uniform meant that we could jump the queue.
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While ordinary citizens had to wait months to get hospital treatment, government officials were able to jump the queue.
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Rayleen helped too, or rather her uniform did, giving us a pseudo-official status which meant we could jump the queue.
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We can not jump the queue.
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Why not save money - and jump the queue today.
the dole queue/dole queues
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Excuse me, are you in the queue ?
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I joined the queue for a taxi.
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The queue went right round the block.
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The women who were waiting outside the toilets began to form a queue .
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There was a queue of about fifteen people at the bus stop.
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There was a long queue for the toilets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another person joined the queue and the old lady immediately behind him began to look restive.
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At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile.
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Before long, lengthy queues began to form before opening time.
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Credit-checking agencies, credit-card processors and other heavy telecoms users have been at the front of the queue .
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If you're heading for the Paris Disney during the Easter holidays, how can you beat the queues?
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Meredith, recalling her brief conversation with Deanes in the queue , felt compelled to defend him.
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Three girls lost two weeks for talking in the medicine queue whilst waiting for doses.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Aspirants and aficionados alike ought to be queuing up outside bookstores to lay hands on it.
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But, like turkeys looking forward to Christmas, industry heavyweights queued up to be part of the action.
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What we didn't relish was queuing up again in the gloom of the stairwell to get it.
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When the satellite is busy messages queue up and are sent out at a steady rate.
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The road's real busy now - there's hundreds and hundreds of cars and buses all queuing up .
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Tony Curtis wanted sausages, beans and mash and so he queued up with everyone else.
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Clothes queue up in the wardrobe, an echo to the eye, or a jangle of Euclid.
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You don't have to queue up at passport control.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the dole queue/dole queues
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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One of the other passengers who was queueing to get on the train suddenly had a heart attack.
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Thousands queued for tickets to see the final.
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We had to queue for hours in the rain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Everyone would be trying to use the lift at that point - probably queuing for it.
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Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours.
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He had half expected a divine pre-emptive strike, a thunderbolt maybe, as he queued for the body and blood.
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The Caf Gandoplhi is Glasgow's cooling stream bit, assuming you don't mind queuing.
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They are just queuing at the door, waiting to be let in.