in line

Questions about in line

What does in line mean?

in line means "being next in a line of succession". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is in line a common word?

in line is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for in line come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.