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the polite fiction that waiting in order makes waiting hurt less.
means forming or joining an orderly line to wait your turn for something.
from from french queue, meaning tail, itself from latin cauda — because a line of people is just a very patient animal.
british obsessionbritain treats queue-jumping as a moral crime.
math fieldqueueing theory models traffic, call centers, servers.
extra eenglish's only common word with five vowels in a row.