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# DispatchSerialQueue

A custom dispatch queue that schedules tasks for serial execution on an arbitrary thread.

```
class DispatchSerialQueue
```

## Overview

You do not create objects of this type directly. You receive a queue of the appropriate type when you create a new [`DispatchQueue`](/documentation/Dispatch/DispatchQueue) object.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Scheduler`](/documentation/Combine/Scheduler)

[`TaskExecutor`](/documentation/Swift/TaskExecutor)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`SerialExecutor`](/documentation/Swift/SerialExecutor)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Executor`](/documentation/Swift/Executor)

### Inherited By

[`OS_dispatch_queue_main-swift.class`](/documentation/Dispatch/OS_dispatch_queue_main-swift.class)

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