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Definition of "lineup" []

  • A line of people that is formed for inspection or identification. (noun)
  • Sports The members of a team chosen to start a game. (noun)
  • Sports A list of such players. (noun)
  • A group of people, organizations, or things enlisted or arrayed for a purpose: a candidate with an impressive lineup of endorsements. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "lineup" in a sentence
  • "If you can ignore the prominent Experience Music Project posters and Caffe Vita swag, the lineup is actually pretty impressive, including Long Winters-esque The Lonely Forest (technically from Anacortes, but close enough); Grand Hallway (an orchestral rock octet that played on a stage barely big enough to contain them); and Rocky Votolato, a Dallas native whose moving acoustic set touched on the themes of mental illness, depression, and despair."
  • "Cantu and Wigginton can help drive in runs and Iwamura showed decent power in Japan, but the key to the lineup is at the top of the order with Baldelli, Young and Crawford."
  • "Included in the lineup is a funeral director from Pennsylvania."