Similar words: short-list, short list, short-lived, shortly, shorthand typist, chortle, import license, short. Meaning: n. a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen. v. put someone or something on a short list.
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1 Davies was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize.
2 She's on the shortlist for a teaching post.
3 The interviewers have to draw up a shortlist of five or six people.
4 The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates.
5 The film is on the shortlist for Best Picture.
6 I think we should put her on our shortlist.
7 They will choose from a shortlist of seven candidates.
8 Only irreproachable sportsmanship makes this shortlist.
9 The shortlist will be announced this month.
10 Balfour Beatty originally made the shortlist but decided against pricing it.
11 He has not been included on the shortlist of 18 hopefuls for this supposedly safe Tory seat.
12 They will choose a shortlist of 200, who will be implanted with 10 cloned embryos.
13 After a trawl through its shortlist, a further three prospective sites were added to the already chosen Elstow.
14 He was on the shortlist for the job.
15 He is on the shortlist for the job.
16 Costain is on the shortlist against Laing O'Rourke,[www.Sentencedict.com] Balfour Beatty and the Kier consortium.
17 She is one of the four people on my shortlist of great singers.
18 We have to choose a new manager from a shortlist of five candidates.
19 A list of 12 candidates has been winnowed down to a shortlist of three.
20 I am not surprised that the Booker Prize jury included it on their shortlist.
21 This feature should clearly be borne in mind whilst selecting a shortlist.
22 Nearly 500 families were nominated for the award and the Williams were selected from a shortlist of 12.
23 You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population.
24 But Esa-Pekka Salonen's new recording deserves a place on that shortlist of runners-up.
25 But Schwartz was undeterred in his efforts to keep Worldwide Plaza on a shortlist of three possible buildings to move to.
26 Stage 3: Additional criteria would be defined and agreed with the client to compile the shortlist of target companies.
27 But the reality is that 99% of artists working in London will not get anywhere near the shortlist.
28 I have nothing against these resorts, but my own shortlist of best resorts would not include any of them.
29 This year's format was different, involving 96 journalists and a shortlist of 50 players worldwide.
30 Now it would appear that long - standing target David Villa at the top of Chelsea's shortlist.
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