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shortlist

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,186 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: shortlists

A shortlist is the small group chosen from all the applicants. Draw up a shortlist, on the shortlist, a shortlist of four.

It exists because interviewing everybody is impossible, and the cut is where most of the decision is really made. It works as a verb: to be shortlisted is to have got through. In prizes, the shortlist is announced and is an honour in itself.

Definitions of shortlist

  1. 1nounshortlistThe small group chosen from all the applicants.C1

    “Five candidates made the shortlist and were invited for a second interview.”

shortlist is a list.

Practised in Work & Careers

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shortlist in the wild

  • The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.

    List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

  • Labour abandoned the shortlist for general election purposes in March 2022.

    All-women shortlist

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.