shortlist
shortlist
Definition
short·list (s̸hôrt′list′)
noun
Chiefly Brit. a list of those candidates for a position, award, etc. not eliminated in the preliminary selection process, from which the final choice will be made
transitive verb
to place on a shortlist
shortlist
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- announce: I look forward to announcing the shortlist for the Prime Minister's award for Better Public Building later this summer.
- compile: Councilors are compiling a shortlist of famous figures who they feel deserve a place in Edinburgh's history books.
- select: Young reviewers competed for places on the panel to choose the winners from a shortlist selected by adults.
- beat: Falmouth Gallery beat a shortlist of four other British Art Galleries.
- reach: We will then inform the writers who have reached the shortlist by the 10th of July 2006.
- choose: These sophisticated online tools offer great value to intending purchasers seeking to choose an appropriate shortlist of suppliers.
Adjective modifier
- all-women: The Labor Party has apologized for imposing a all-women shortlist on Blaenau Gwent at the General Election.
- all-woman: The all-woman shortlist, in short, has been a crucial weapon in the fight to secure more women MPs representing Welsh seats.
- provisional: All have played their part in helping us draw up our provisional shortlist.
- final: CPS was in the final shortlist of two, along with NCP.
Modifies a noun
- candidate: It will not be considered alongside your application when we shortlist candidates.
Noun used with modifier
- view: To view the vehicles in your shortlist, simply click view shortlist.
- prise: Museum prize shortlist unveiled BBC Birmingham, UK - .. .
Preposition: of
- finalist: An independent judging panel met in July to agree a shortlist of three finalists per category.
- bidder: A shortlist of bidders will be drawn up following close of bidding at midnight every Sunday.
- contender: A shortlist of six contenders also included boxer Lennox Lewis, tennis player Tim Henman and world triple jump champion Jonathan Edwards.
- candidate: We can identify a shortlist of candidates, using your vacancy criteria.
- nomination: ENTRY INFORMATION All nominations will be considered and a shortlist of 3 nominations per category will be decided.
- applicant: A shortlist of applicants may be invited for interview.
Preposition: for
- award: Roehampton graduate Yvonne Wake, reached the shortlist for a prestigious national nutrition award in recognition of her project on childhood obesity.
Browse dictionary entries near shortlist
- shortish
- shortie
- shortia
- shorthorn
- shorthead
- shorthand
- shorthair
- shortgrass
- shortfall
- shorter
- shortly
- shortness
- shorts
- shortsighted
- shortstop
- shortwave
- shorty
- Shoshone
- Shoshone Falls
- Shoshonean
