| 单词 | queue |
| 释义 | queue queue // noun, verb
■ noun [C]
DOLE QUEUE
1 (BrE) (AmE line) a line of people, cars, etc. waiting to do sth: There were queues at all the check-outs. She joined a long queue waiting to buy tickets. Long traffic queues formed around the new shopping centre.
2 (BrE) (AmE line) a large number of people who want to do or have sth: There will be a queue of buyers for the company.
3 (IT ) a list of jobs that a computer has to do in a particular order: Your work is not printed immediately but is sent to the print queue.
4 if your call is being held in a queue, a number of other calls will be dealt with before your call is answered: Thank you for holding-your call is in a queue.
IDIOMS
at the front/back of the queue among the first or the last people to do sth or have sth: If a business goes bust, equity investors are at the back of the queue.
■ verb (queuing or queueing)
1 [no obj] queue (up) (for sth) to wait in a line to do sth, buy sth, go somewhere, etc.; to be one of a large number of people who want to do sth: Hundreds of shoppers queued from 2 a.m. Investors and bankers queued up to finance the boom.
2 (IT ) [+ obj or no obj] to arrange jobs in a queue |
| 随便看 |
|
英汉经管词典收录了11049条经济管理类英汉双解词条，基本涵盖了经济学、管理学、金融学、会计学、证券期货、商务活动等领域的常用英语单词及短语词组的翻译及用法，是学习及工作的有利工具。