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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
line-up
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
batting
▪ They have strength in the batting line-up as well with internationals Marshall Kilgore and Stephen Smyth to call on.
▪ Aravinda de Silva heads the talented batting line-up, but the bowlers may struggle to keep the runs down.
final
▪ Mary Read closed the school after providing one final line-up in the Princetown Follies in 1935.
original
▪ Fairport has only one member of the original line-up still playing in the band, Simon Nicol.
▪ Next year, H.R. and Earl once again returned to the fold and restored the original line-up.
▪ This is the best studio album that the original line-up ever produced.
▪ For the record the original line-up was N. Collins.
starting
▪ Bjornbye was immediately drafted into the party and could make a surprise appearance in the starting line-up at left back.
▪ Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the substitutes' bench.
▪ Was this his first match in the starting line-up?
▪ And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu.
▪ And a hamstring injury has put skipper Ellery Hanley out of the starting line-up against Rovers.
▪ In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.
■ VERB
complete
▪ One top name special guest band has yet to be announced, completing the line-up at.
▪ Percussionists Mauricio Alves and Sergio Cassiano complete the line-up.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ CBS has a great Wednesday night line-up.
▪ Cordell may not be in the line-up for tonight's game.
▪ The line-up of performers includes Cher and Garth Brooks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Andy hadn't a care in the world as he joked with a star-packed line-up of players.
▪ I stuck it till my teeth began to scream and then I ducked out of the line-up and no one noticed I'd gone.
▪ In the evening, the names of those who had been picked from the line-up were read out over the camp tannoy.
▪ It's all part of an incredible £40,000 prize line-up.
▪ Just look at this winning line-up!
▪ Second placed Sutton also name their most powerful line-up at home to Wavertree, for whom skipper Ian Morley returns.
▪ This was an unfamiliar Forest line-up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Line-up

Line-up \Line"-up`\, Lineup \Line"up`\ (l[imac]n"[u^]p), n.

  1. The members of a team who are scheduled to play a game.

  2. Specifically: The formation of football players before the start or a restart of play.

  3. Specifically: (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat. [WordNet sense 1]

    Syn: batting order, card, lineup.

  4. Hence: any arrangement of persons (rarely, of things), esp. when having a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket-office window; the line-up of political factions. [Colloq.]

  5. A group of persons including a suspect in a police investigation, arranged so as to be observed by a witness, who is requested to identify the perpetrator, if he/she is present in the group. Such an identification may be used as evidence of guilt of the suspect. Also called a police lineup. [WordNet sense 2]

Wiktionary
line-up

n. (alternative spelling of lineup English)

Wikipedia
Line-Up (Graham Bonnet album)

Line-Up is the third album released by English singer, Graham Bonnet, formerly of Rainbow.

Line-up (Battlefield Band album)

Line-up is the thirtieth album by Battlefield Band and their twenty-second studio album, released in 2011 on the Temple Records label.

Usage examples of "line-up".

He had three gigs lined up over the weekend - a Saturday nighter at the Astoria with the regulars and then two club gigs as a member of a completely different Dead Junkies line-up with another set of local musicians.

His angry eyes swept down the line-up of prisoners, clashed with the steady blue eyes of Roger Pawling, dealt an optical blow to old Dan Murphy, and came to rest, fairly sizzling upon the bronzed, half-smiling countenance of Gillian.

Since then the band members have been getting back together, but the line-up has changed and Pannach, their wordsmith, died.

Syd received support for his view from those who revived bands of the past with just one member of the original line-up, insisting that they could recreate the original sound if they used the original vocalist.

In literature, we are shown a line-up of murderers, dipsomaniacs, drug addicts, neurotics and psychotics as representatives of man’s soul—and are invited to identify our own among them—with the belligerent assertions that life is a sewer, a foxhole or a rat race, with the whining injunctions that we must love everything, except virtue, and forgive everything, except greatness.

I talked about stoplights on Camino Real, line-ups at Fry's, rude telephone operators, traffic on the 101, the price of cheese singles at Costco.

But Carringer held true to his course, and in a few minutes the Hellion came thundering out of the pass dead over the amazing line-up of Demons.

A trim female lieutenant wearing White House insignia on her olive green fatigues beckoned him out of the lunch line-up on the language lab's mess-deck and took him through the usual obstacle course of card-controlled turnstiles and elevators to their leader.

Or in conducting a police line-up or photo identification, the officer in charge should not know who the prime suspect is, so as not consciously or unconsciously to influence the witness.

Now the wait was two years for a sword and the line-up of royalty was unending and Yeste was growing tired, so he doubled his prices again, and when that didn’t stop them, he decided to triple his already doubled and redoubled prices and besides that, all work had to be paid for in jewels in advance and the wait was up to three years, but nothing would stop them.

Now the wait was two years for a sword and the line-up of royalty was unending and Yeste was growing tired, so he doubled his prices again, and when that didn't stop them, he decided to triple his already doubled and redoubled prices and besides that, all work had to be paid for in jewels in advance and the wait was up to three years, but nothing would stop them.