Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Awaiting something; especially something due or promised: Used to describe a person who is scheduled or expected to receive something next, such as a promotion, inheritance, or opportunity.
   • Being next in a line of succession: Used to indicate a person's position as the next rightful claimant to a title, position, or role.

2. Adverb:

   • One behind another in a line or queue: Used to describe the physical act of waiting in an ordered sequence of people.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • After her excellent performance review, she is in line for a significant raise.
  • The eldest prince is first in line to the throne.

• Adverb:

  • Please wait in line for the bus.
  • Customers stood in line for over an hour to buy the new product.

Advanced Usage

• "to be in line with something": To be in agreement or conformity with something.
  • His actions were not in line with the company's values.
• "to bring something into line": To cause something to conform or agree.
  • The new manager worked to bring the department's procedures into line with head office policy.
• "to fall in line": To conform to rules or expectations.
  • After some initial resistance, the team fell in line with the new strategy.

Variants and Related Words

• Line (n): A long, narrow mark; a row of people or things; a sequence.
• Line up (phrasal verb): To form or arrange in a line.
  • The children lined up to go to the playground.
• Online (adj/adv): Connected to or available through a computer or telecommunications network. (Note: This is a distinct compound word).

Synonyms

• Adjective: Next, due, slated, scheduled, queued (for).
• Adverb: In a queue, in a row, sequentially.

Related Phrases

• In the pipeline: Being planned or developed, but not yet available.
  • Several new features are in the pipeline for the next software update.
• Step out of line: To behave in an unacceptable or disobedient way.
  • Any soldier who steps out of line will face disciplinary action.

Adjective

1. awaiting something; especially something due
   • people were in line at the checkout counter
   • she was in line for promotion
2. being next in a line of succession
   • he was in line for the presidency

Adverb

1. one behind another in a line or queue
   • they waited in line for the tickets