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View synonyms for line-up

line-up

noun

  1. a row or arrangement of people or things assembled for a particular purpose

    the line-up for the football match

  2. the members of such a row or arrangement
  3. an identity parade
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to form, put into, or organize a line-up
  2. tr to produce, organize, and assemble

    they lined up some questions

  3. tr to align
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

You have to squint very hard to make the novel begin to line up with reality.

With a puckish grin, he ordered his entourage, including several generals, to line up and join him in—how shall one put it?

With a $20,000 loan from a friend, matched from her own funds and credit, Roberts got a full line up and running in early 2013.

Set on a mountaintop, the complex is layered, with platforms, walls, and other areas where people line up to watch those entering.

Baldwin proceeds to take down the entire MSNBC line up, even mocking Phil Griffin, the head of MSNBC (and his former employer).

But Mort knows just how many voters there are in every township and just how they line up election morning.

The Polish saloon-keeper loses his liquor license if he fails to line up his fellow-countrymen for the local machine.

The diagrams in Accomptynge by Counters may not line up perfectly in all browsers, but the contents should still be intelligible.

Well, the Heriot laddies might line up along the wall, and the tenement bairns look down from the windows.

They say titled foreigners line up in front of the Lenox postoffice to look for heiresses.

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