line-up
/ˈlʌɪnʌp
/noun
1A group of people or things brought together for a particular purpose, especially the members of a sports team or a group of musicians or other entertainers: the instrumental line-up is piano, drums, and lead and bass guitar a talented batting line-up...
- Their success is built on a batting line-up that will surely go down as one of the most talented to have graced a field.
- Although the weather was hot, a line-up of bands entertained the musically inclined for the afternoon.
- The years of Sunday Night and big starry entertainment line-ups are over, and even the Royal Variety Show seems like a dusty relic of a different age.
Synonyms
list of performers, list, listing, cast, bill, programme
list of players, team, squad, side, selection
2chiefly North American A line or queue of people or things: hour-long line-ups are common during peak periods...
- Marvel at the line-up of shabby kids in a line across the old Syke on Fellside, where smoke billows across the rooftops and cats prowl the cobbles.
- The actual border crossing station between Jordan and Iraq looks like most other terminals between nations, with long line-ups and crowds in the various offices.
Synonyms
queue, line, row, column
British informal crocodile
2.1 another term for identity parade.Witnesses will be spared the anguish of having to see the suspect in the flesh, even through a one-way screen, in traditional line-ups at police stations....
- It uses the latest technology to hold a virtual line-up on a laptop computer, with the help of video images from a national database of volunteers.
- Previously, we wrote about Five Unusual Ways To Make Money (including volunteering for police line-ups and helping to compile the electoral register).