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line-up

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. (Law) an identity parade

vb (adverb)

4. to form, put into, or organize a line-up

5. (tr) to produce, organize, and assemble: they lined up some questions.

6. (tr) to align

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line-up

noun arrangement, team, row, selection, array, dream team a great line-up of musicians and comedy acts

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line-up

[ˈlaɪnʌp] N (Sport) → formación f, alineación f (Theat, Cine) [of actors] → reparto m, elenco m (Mus) [of band] → formación f, integrantes mfpl (US) (= suspects) → rueda f de reconociemiento; (= queue) → cola f

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line-up

n (Sport) → Aufstellung f; (= cast) → Besetzung f; (= alignment) → Gruppierung f; (US: = queue) → Schlange f; she picked the thief out of the line-up → sie erkannte den Dieb bei der Gegenüberstellung

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line-up

[ˈlaɪnˌʌp] n (row) → fila, allineamento (Sport) → formazione f (Am) (identity parade) → confronto all'americana

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