lineup

1. (US, law and law enforcement) a physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify themExamples: "Before viewing the lineup, each witness should be required to give to the officer in charge of the lineup a written description of the perpetrator of the crime."; "This innocent suspect is placed in a lineup with five fillers who look similar to that innocent suspect. Given this scenario, one may ask How many people are in the lineup because they fit the description of the perpetrator?"; "Foster was placed in a three-man lineup for viewing by the only witness (the manager of the office). Foster was about 6 feet tall, whereas the other two men in the lineup were about 5 feet 6 inches tall."US

2. (Canada) A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue.Examples: "We have a simple business process that consists of two steps: people wait in a lineup then fill out an application form."; "I've heard that information before and try to remember to do that when there isn't a lineup of customers. When there is a lineup of customers, I don't feel that I have enough time."; "As soon as I entered, I saw a lineup of about 10 to 15 customers."Synonyms: line, queueCanada

3. (sports) Collectively, the members of a team.Examples: "The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United."; "Elton Brand in 1998 missed 15 games because of an injury in the middle of the year but returned to the lineup late in the season, so he is listed as a starter here. The aim here is to list the lineup that was in use near the end of each season […]"; "Before any game, a team is usually quite interested in its opponent's lineup."

4. (baseball) The batting order.Examples: "More than any other batter in the lineup, he can keep the inning going with a a base hit, and over a season he'll have as many at-bats as teh lead-off man and thus hit hard and often for his team."; "For example, as before, the leadoff hitter for the visiting team in the top of the first inning fails to come to bat and the #2 batter in the lineup subsequently becomes the initial batter in the inning."; "That meant Howell moved from a weak-hitting lineup to a great-hitting lineup, and players generally said they hit better if they had better hitters around them."

5. (car racing) The order in which race-cars are positioned at the start of a race, based on qualifying times.Examples: "A double-car lineup means the third-fastest car lines up behind the pole sitter and the fourth-fastest behind the car on the outside of the front row, and so on throughout the field."; "The lineup was then set fastest to slowest."; "Next, Tuddy gave us the lineup for the next race, which would be as follows: Bud, Puck, Joey, Pepper, me, then Ty."

6. (marketing) The set of product options available from a particular manufacturer or under a particular brand name.Examples: "The mid-size Chevelle lineup featured revised frontal styling and one new model, a Concours Estate Wagon that sported wood-grain exterior trim and a black-accented grille."; "If you look at its whole product lineup—cars, motorcycles, marine engines, lawn mowers , power generators, and so forth —Honda makes about 30 million engines a year worldwide."; "If you decide that part of your portfolio should be in mutual funds, you can do a lot worse than going with T. Rowe Price's lineup of entirely load-free funds."