Lexic.us

Definition of Shortlist

1. Verb. Put someone or something on a short list.

2. Noun. A list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen.

Definition of Shortlist

1. Verb. To place something on a short list ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shortlist

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortlist

shorthold shorthorn shorthorn sculpin shorthorn sculpins shorthorns shortia shortias shortie shorties shorting

shortish shortite shortleaf shortleaf pine shortleaf yellow pine shortlist (current term) shortlisted shortlistee shortlistees shortlisting

shortlists shortlived shortly shortness shortness of breath shortnesses shortribs shorts shortsheet shortsheeted

Literary usage of Shortlist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Key Indicators to Inform Decision Making by Organization for Economic Cooperation an (2005)
"A shortlist of indicators makes it easier to present a clear picture of the Member States' ... Third, the shortlist of indicators has a clearer logic. ..."

2. Safe & Sustainable Transport: A Matter of Quality Assurance by ECMT Staff (2003)
"ADAS shortlist ADVISORS has defined a shortlist of ADAS that are well worth investigating. ... Some of the ADAS on the shortlist are presented here. ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"A shortlist may prove of interest. •'Hulling " and " trying '' were the words which answer to what we now call " hove-to." " Sailing large,'' having the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1877)
"... and Asplenium marinum—a shortlist, it must be confessed, and one which includes scarcely one of the most remarkable or characteristic plants. ..."

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