line-upˈline-up noun [countable usually singular] 
This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).2a group of people, especially performers, who have agreed to be involved in an event: The line-up included top bands Prodigy and Radiohead.3a number of events or programmes arranged to follow each other: a wonderful line-up of programmes for Christmas and the New Year4especially American English a row of people who stand in front of a witness to a crime, who is then asked if he or she recognizes any of them as the criminal SYN identification parade British English
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- CBS has a great Wednesday night line-up.
- Cordell may not be in the line-up for tonight's game.
- The line-up of performers includes Cher and Garth Brooks.
- Andy hadn't a care in the world as he joked with a star-packed line-up of players.
- I stuck it till my teeth began to scream and then I ducked out of the line-up and no one noticed I'd gone.
- In the evening, the names of those who had been picked from the line-up were read out over the camp tannoy.
- It's all part of an incredible £40,000 prize line-up.
- Just look at this winning line-up!
- Second placed Sutton also name their most powerful line-up at home to Wavertree, for whom skipper Ian Morley returns.
- This was an unfamiliar Forest line-up.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1the players in a sports team who play in a particular game: This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).· They have strength in the batting line-up as well with internationals Marshall Kilgore and Stephen Smyth to call on.· Aravinda de Silva heads the talented batting line-up, but the bowlers may struggle to keep the runs down.
· Mary Read closed the school after providing one final line-up in the Princetown Follies in 1935.
· Fairport has only one member of the original line-up still playing in the band, Simon Nicol.· Next year, H.R. and Earl once again returned to the fold and restored the original line-up.· This is the best studio album that the original line-up ever produced.· For the record the original line-up was N. Collins.
· Bjornbye was immediately drafted into the party and could make a surprise appearance in the starting line-up at left back.· Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the substitutes' bench.· Was this his first match in the starting line-up?· And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu.· And a hamstring injury has put skipper Ellery Hanley out of the starting line-up against Rovers.· In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.
VERB· One top name special guest band has yet to be announced, completing the line-up at.· Percussionists Mauricio Alves and Sergio Cassiano complete the line-up.
This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).2a group of people, especially performers, who have agreed to be involved in an event: The line-up included top bands Prodigy and Radiohead.3a number of events or programmes arranged to follow each other: a wonderful line-up of programmes for Christmas and the New Year4especially American English a row of people who stand in front of a witness to a crime, who is then asked if he or she recognizes any of them as the criminal SYN identification parade British English