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  line-up

  noun

  a row or arrangement of people or things assembled for a particular purpose
• line up
  line up

  Arrange in or form a line, as in Betty lined up the books on the shelf , or The children lined up for lunch . [Late 1800s]

line-up

British  

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

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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

line up Idioms  

1. Arrange in or form a line, as in Betty lined up the books on the shelf , or The children lined up for lunch . [Late 1800s]

2. Organize, make ready, make the arrangements for, as in They lined up considerable support for the bill , or Nancy was supposed to line up a hall for the concert . [c. 1900]

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Example Sentences

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Friday's goalscorers - Kai Havertz, Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka - all featured in the same Premier League starting line-up just once last season.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Jaissle challenged Junuzovic to improve and earn his place in the starting line-up, and "kept his word" when he did.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Today we have the most complete line-up in Ferrari history and we continue to experience healthy demand, with an order book that entirely covers 2027,” Chief Executive Benedetto Vigna said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

McColgan will line-up alongside compatriot Megan Keith, who broke the European 10k road record in Spain earlier this year.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

"Yeah," we concur, hands on our hips, facing him, a line-up of feminists.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

“Bottom line up front,” he replied in an email reviewed by ProPublica.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

By the third image in the sequence, the two objects line up, and Earth briefly disappears behind the shadowed edge of the small moon.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

If you are not somewhere on Earth where the Sun and Moon completely line up from your point of view, you will experience a partial solar eclipse.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Crowds of dedicated diners braved the 90-degree heat to line up around the ’50s-style restaurant and took in the sights, sounds and smells of Heart’s for one last time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Finally Captain Marsh gave the order for them to line up again.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis