Betekenis van queue In het Nederlands

• 0 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).

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

• 1 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.

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

• 2 a line of people or things waiting for something:

  • There was a long queue for tickets at the theater.

• 3 a line of people who are waiting for something:

  • There was a huge queue of people stretching down the road from the bank.

• 4 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.

• 5 a list of jobs that a computer has to do:

  • a print queue

• 6 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.

• 7 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.

• 8 to join a number of people who are waiting for or to do something:

  • Competitors queue up to steal clients and key employees.

• 9 to arrange tasks in order:

  • The server will not allow me to queue print jobs.