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shortlist

shortlist

6 3.6
A list of chosen candidates for a job or prize
  • noun
  • /ˈʃɔrtˌlɪst/
translation icon : lista corta
  • Speaking of people who might be on Trump's shortlist for VP, Vivek Ramaswamy is back with us tomorrow.
  • shortlist of candidates

Sam Altman was on the shortlist for Time magazine Person of the Year.

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Examples

  • Time to prime for the NFL weekend ahead; there's no better place to go when forming your shortlist of viewing targets.

    Blog text (20)

  • Its members review the applications and determine a shortlist of candidates for screening interviews.

    Academic text (2016)

  • And still on any list, any shortlist of the best selling works of literature in the history of the world.

  • Then, when we made up a shortlist of candidates, we were to check off the same information about them.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Sam Altman was on the shortlist for Time magazine Person of the Year.

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  • In this country for politics, we have female only shortlists for positions in Parliament.

  • So now you have a shortlist of suitable-sounding counselors and psychotherapists...

    Blog text (29)

  • The committee released a shortlist of finalists for the science scholarship.

  • She made it onto the shortlist for the prestigious music award this year.

  • The organization announced the shortlist of candidates for the director position.

Synonyms

short list
vsshortlist
38 3.7

A list of chosen people from a larger group for final selection

is the single-word written form for the same list of chosen candidates

How Selective

shortlist
6 3.6
to preselect
3 3.7
to screen
97 3.4
to select
823 2.5

Surface Forms

shortlist singular
shortlists plural

Morphology

shortlist = short + list (transparent) = short + list

The noun is a straightforward compound 'short' + 'list' meaning a reduced or brief list, which is directly inferable from its parts.

Etymology

Shortlist is made of short ('small' or 'brief') and list ('a series of names'). So a shortlist is a small list of chosen people or things, the top choices for a job, prize, or opportunity.