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• past participle of queue.
• past tense form of queue.

queued

American  

[kyood] / kjud /

adjective

1. waiting in a line.

   The motorcycle zipped by, overtaking the queued cars and cutting in front of all of them.

2. Computers. assigned to or arranged in a list of items waiting for action.

   The service has since been restored and all queued emails have been delivered.

   The queued operations may be rearranged and optimized before execution.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of queue.

Etymology

Origin of queued

queue ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ), -ed ³ ( def. )

Example Sentences

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queued

Customers queued in long lines to snap up a special-edition Harry Potter collection last year, for example.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Just months after a previous major storm, cars queued at petrol stations, while residents thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Swatch closed its stores in several cities across the UK after hundreds of people queued outside and the police were called in.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

"Swatch collaborated with a really good brand - that's AP. And it's really good to have this in my watch collection," said another man, who queued for two days and slept in a tent.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Joe queued up the song, and we all watched Ellie as she closed her eyes and listened.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez