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noun

shortlist

CEFR C1

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

In a sentence

Six example sentences with shortlist, each labelled with its topic.

  • Four hundred applications became a shortlist of six, and the panel interviewed all of them in a single day.

    Business

  • The prize shortlist named two painters, a weaver, and a sculptor who works only in salvaged scaffolding poles.

    Art

  • Our practice made the shortlist for the museum, then lost to a firm proposing a roof of folded copper.

    Architecture

  • The prize shortlist held six novels, and the bookshop stacked them by the door for the month before the ceremony.

    Literature

  • The national coach cut forty names to a shortlist of sixteen and brought them to a camp in June.

    Basketball

  • The local party drew up a shortlist of three, then let every member vote by post on the final candidate.

    Politics

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