Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - queue up

If you say that people are queuing up to do or have something, you mean that a lot of them want the opportunity to do it or have it. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use line up) People are queueing up to work for me!... There are a growing number of countries queueing up for membership. PHRASAL VERB: usu cont, V P to-inf, V P for n see also queue 3