queuequeue2 verb (past tensepst and past participlepp queued, present participle queuing or queueing) British EnglishBrE1[intransitiveI] (also queue up) to form or join a line of people or vehicles waiting to do something or go somewhereCustomers queued for hours to buy the new toy.
I queued up at the travel centre to pick up my tickets.
2[transitiveT]COMPUTING if a computer queues a job, it puts it in a list of jobs that are to be done in a particular orderInput or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system.