short list
or short·list
noun
a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
Origin of short list
First recorded in 1925–30
short-list
[shawrt-list]
verb (used with object)
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Examples from the Web for shortlist
Contemporary Examples of shortlist
The Washington Post also mentioned Lynch and former Associate Attorney General Tony West as candidates on the shortlist.
One example is a design recently named to the shortlist for the 2014 World Architecture Festival awards.
Last week, The Past failed to make the shortlist for the Academy Award for best foreign film, which A Separation won in 2012.
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December 26, 2013
The new pontiff gets the nod over a shortlist that included Edward Snowden, Ted Cruz and Bashar al-Assad.
And last week both Reuters and Business Insider ran articles suggesting that Ferguson was on the shortlist.
short list
noun
verb short-list (tr)
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