- short-list
- `short-,list verb transitiveto put someone or something on a short list:This story was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize.
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
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short list — or[short listed] {v. phr.} To place on the list of select finalists for a job. * /Only three of the twenty seven applicants were short listed for the assistant professorial vacancy in our department./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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