queuing

verb

variants or queueing
Definition of queuingnext
present participle of queue
as in lining

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for queuing
  1. aligning
  2. prioritizing
  3. filing
  4. placing
Verb
  • Students with disabilities should continue to be counted in that group for two years after no longer needing services, aligning with how students learning English are followed after services are no longer provided.
    Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
  • What Employers Can Learn For businesses, the WNBA’s CBA process offers valuable lessons in negotiation, transparency, and the need for aligning employee compensation with business success.
    Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of aligning
Verb
  • In response to this, healthcare organizations are increasingly prioritizing sustainability to establish a more resilient healthcare sector, paired with significant social and economic reward.
    Molly Matthews, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Some best practices for organizing information effectively include clear, intuitive navigation; concise content; and prioritizing what’s most important.
    Sam Nelson, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of prioritizing
Verb
  • Hours before the Mets kept alive their season and continued the promise of a compelling postseason for the New York baseball scene, Yankee Stadium was quiet with the sounds of players filing in for a simulated game and key figures talking about their postseason return following a one-year absence.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • For Hodgson, one of his priorities last session was making improvements to protect personal privacy, which included filing a bill that would have banned data collected from license plate readers to outside parties.
    Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of filing
Verb
  • Witnesses told investigators that Thomas was seen hours later struggling to drag something wrapped in a blue tarp down the apartment building stairs before placing the tarp in Abraham’s car, according to the affidavit.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In California, for example, placing an infant in a private child-care center cost an average of $19,547 per year in 2021, according to the nonprofit Child Care Aware.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of placing
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