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Queue
An ordered collection of persons or things in which one is serviced after another. For example, persons may form a queue to buy tickets to the cinema. Likewise, an employee may form a list of tasks to be done each day and perform them each in turn. The word queue is most common in Britain and the Commonwealth; the equivalent in American English is waiting line or simply line.


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Byline: By Kat Keogh CUSTOMERS in Birmingham were today demanding answers from Post Office bosses following the introduction of a controversial new queuing system.
I have suggested that a canopy or some kind of shelter would be greatly appreciated by the Merseyside public while queuing for tickets.
30pm and pick up tickets without queuing, I say it's about time they lived in the real world.
 
 
 
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