[
UK
/ʃˈɔːtlɪst/
]
NOUN
- a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen
VERB
- put someone or something on a short list
How To Use shortlist In A Sentence
- Shortlisted vehicles will be announced in early November and the members of the Irish Motoring Writers Association will have a final chance to test-drive contending vehicles at a refresher day before final judging takes place.
- This week's poem is from the book of shortlisted and highly commended poems. Times, Sunday Times
- She is one of the four people on my shortlist of great singers.
- More than 30 applicants have been reduced to a shortlist and the post should be filled next month. Times, Sunday Times
- She's on the shortlist for a teaching post.
- She had to be dropped from the newcomer category last month after an eligibility bungle because she had already been shortlisted for best female in 2000, but lost out out to Sonique.
- The board meet today to draw up a shortlist and hope to have a new boss by the weekend. The Sun
- Her sprawling, comic epic about multi-ethnic Britain, which uncovers a wonderland of magic realism in the London subtopias of Cricklewood Broadway and Willesden, beat a strong shortlist of four other books, all by American writers.
- Troubles was chosen by a public poll from a shortlist of six chosen by a panel. Times, Sunday Times
- It came down to a shortlist of one. Times, Sunday Times