ˈline-up BrE AmE noun [countable usually singular]
1 . the players in a sports team who play in a particular game:
This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game) .
2 . a group of people, especially performers, who have agreed to be involved in an event:
The line-up included top bands Prodigy and Radiohead.
3 . a number of events or programmes arranged to follow each other:
a wonderful line-up of programmes for Christmas and the New Year
4 . especially American English a row of people who stand in front of a ↑ witness to a crime, who is then asked if he or she recognizes any of them as the criminal SYN identification parade British English