shortlist

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If I were in the market for a petrol car right now, those would be on the shortlist.

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Quick take

To place something on a short list.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shortlist gathered in one view.

verb

To place something on a short list.

noun

Alternative form of short list. [A list of candidates selected from a longer list, and from which one or more successful candidates are in turn selected.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shortlist.

verb

To place something on a short list.

noun

Alternative form of short list. [A list of candidates selected from a longer list, and from which one or more successful candidates are in turn selected.]

Example sentences

If I were in the market for a petrol car right now, those would be on the shortlist.

Typically, you will shortlist a couple of cars and try them.

That said, we've worked with companies to trim the conversation down to an average of 5 minutes so we can quickly shortlist relevant applicants.

As one of the comments points out, Steve Jackson Games from the early 90s -- which lead to the creation of EFF -- also could be on the shortlist.

We were pleased to get a total of 42 applications, of which 19 merited serious consideration, and we eventually settled on a shortlist of 7 to interview.

I was reading Shortlist the other day, and apparently it takes more than two years and around 20,000 miles on a scooter around London to pass the black cab driver test.

You can write models that produce a shortlist of stocks and options that match certain criteria and you can write risk and portfolio models that try to model what might happen if you add or remove a certain asset from your portfolio, then you can combine these and run some sort of optimization algorithms over the whole thing.

(However, due to people using its EntrePass to skip investor visa requirements, it now has ridiculous requirements such as hiring levels to be maintained and having to be invested in from a shortlist of approved investors none of which actually do seed investing.