line up

to arrange or organize something.

• I have two or three calls lined up for today.

to form people or things into a line.

• I've already got a buyer lined up.
• People were lined up to buy tickets.
• The children are lined up for the bus.
• Houses were lined up alongside the highway.
• All the kids lined up to have their faces painted.
• The computer terminals were lined up in one long row.
• The teacher lined the children up in order of height.
• The traffic was very heavy. The cars were lined up bumper to bumper.
• People were lined up around the block waiting for the theater to open.