QUEUES Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

queues 1 of 2

noun

plural of queue

as in lines

a series of persons or things arranged one behind another join the queue to my left if you need to return merchandise

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verb

present tense third-person singular of queue

as in cues

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Recent Examples of queues

Noun

Over the opening weekend of the Premier League season, versions of this conversation are ubiquitous across the country — in pubs, queues at burger vans, stadiums, online, at home. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 All automatically delivered, no queues, no paperwork required. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 24 Aug. 2026 New energy projects must go through a lengthy process to get grid connection approval, and the queues and waiting times are doubling. — Ray Fernandez, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The huge queues in northern Italy’s Val di Fassa valley is all because of a $4 pastry, which has been promoted by food bloggers and influencers on social media. — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 Despite ongoing hurdles around interconnection queues and grid congestion, the scale of deployment shows developers are overcoming technical and regulatory barriers to support rising electricity demand from data centers and electrification. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026 Several airports including in Paris and Amsterdam have temporarily switched off biometric collection and resorted to manual processing as a result of queues. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 12 Aug. 2026 The most recent government shutdown, which lasted about 75 days, led to long queues and left 61,000 TSA officers working without pay. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for queues

Noun

The show is leaning into its strengths, dialing up the madcap comedy and overlapping dialogue while keeping the story lines rooted in recognizable rites of passage for young people.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Tri-County acknowledged issues with tree branches touching power lines and committed additional resources for tree trimming and system inspections, while local businesses reported lost revenue from outages that often last one to two hours.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of lines

Noun

Some columns from that time showed more nuance or even compassion, including an opinion piece published by The Washington Post in February 2002.

— Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
The district also provided only hourly wages for some employees and annual pay for others, hence the two separate pay columns in our database.

— Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of columns

Noun

Although seen here as a four-seater, the GV90 can be configured with three rows and seating for up to seven occupants.

— Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026
Pictures from the excavation show rows of stone burial chambers at the site, along with human remains, pottery and other artifacts.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of rows

Noun

Riccetti also argued that congestion caused by trains was a major factor in Hemphill traffic, and said that driver speeds along Hemphill are just too fast.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2026
Members maintain the club's 129-year-old building, construct new stretches of track and fix each other's trains.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of trains

Noun

Capezio noted the robot was not operating autonomously but rather had a teleoperator pulling its strings.

— Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
As on the age-old original, the first half of the six-minute track was sweeping in its use of orchestral augmentation, and then the second half put aside both strings and vocals to turn into a pure band jam.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of strings

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Around 1,200 agents overall exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files through an unauthorized message board, coordinating ways to game a hacking evaluation.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
The phone includes 128GB of storage for photos, videos, software, and other files, plus compatibility with current iOS 26 updates.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of files

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