Topic: COMPUTERS
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| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | 'tail', from Latin cauda, coda |
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queue1 S3
[countable]
[countable]1 British English a line of people waiting to enter a building, buy something etc, or a line of vehicles waiting to move [= line American English]
2 British English all the people who are waiting to have or get something : You'll have to join the housing queue. It is possible to jump the queue (=get something before people who have been waiting longer) if you are prepared to pay for your treatment.
You'll have to join the housing queue. queue for the queue for kidney transplant operations
the queue for kidney transplant operationsIt is possible to jump the queue (=get something before people who have been waiting longer) if you are prepared to pay for your treatment.3TD technicalTD a list of jobs that a computer has to do in a particular order : the print queue
the print queue4 a number of telephone calls to a particular number that are waiting to be answered
