shortlist
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definition
verb
the novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize
put (someone or something) on a short list.
noun
a short list of four companies
a list of selected candidates from which a final choice is made.
example
All entries must be received by the end of August when a 'shortlist' of 30 candidates will be drawn up.
From 500 entries, June's portrait made it through to the final 'shortlist' .
From the six proposals on the 'shortlist' we select four to go into production.
This means the 'shortlist' of candidates to replace Mr Soden is likely to be made up exclusively of current executives.
On a final 'shortlist' of eight sites is South Killingholme on the Humber.
For the sixth year running there were no female comics on the final 'shortlist' .
Redman Design was selected from a 'shortlist' of six bidders from across the UK for the contract.
Airedale Hospital was also in the final 'shortlist' for the Hospital of the Year.
a 'shortlist' of four companies
They had a 'shortlist' of candidates and flew to New York and London to interview them.
The 'shortlist' of candidates is understood to be made up exclusively of current Bank of Ireland executives.
A 'shortlist' of the best candidates is prepared and sent to the client.
He made it through the first few rounds, but suffered another blow when he missed out on a place in the final 'shortlist' of 10 contestants.
A 'shortlist' of candidates is drawn up by the constituency association and a number of interviews reduces the number of applicants to two.
The panel will also help draft the selection criteria from which a 'shortlist' of candidates will be chosen.
Understandably, certain names will never get as far as a final 'shortlist' , for various reasons.
The British firm is looking to select a winning bid from a 'shortlist' of four by mid-October.
Even the Sistine Chapel looks unlikely to make the final 'shortlist' .
Rather, I attribute it to a basic problem with how the 'shortlist' is selected.
He would, of course, be on the 'shortlist' of candidates to replace the departing Dane.
Three firms are 'shortlisted' , including Ferguson's and English firm Appledore.
I see from the cover of the book that it was 'shortlisted' for this year's Orange prize for fiction.
The Imperial War Museum North has been 'shortlisted' for another design award.
The Bird of Night was 'shortlisted' for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Best Novel Award.
They will then spend the four months from June to September visiting the workplace of each 'shortlisted' nominee.
Which of the seven 'shortlisted' schemes will win the heart of New Yorkers?
Macintosh's memoir was 'shortlisted' for a travel-writing award sponsored by Thomas Cook.
Sixteen companies were 'shortlisted' for the awards from over a hundred entries received.
It was 'shortlisted' as The Age Book of the Year at the Melbourne Writers' Festival just now.
At the first stage of the bidding, seven bidders were 'shortlisted' from the original fifteen.
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