Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - shortlist

(shortlists, shortlisting, shortlisted) Note: The spelling 'short list' is used in American English and sometimes in British English for the noun. 1. If someone is on a shortlist, for example for a job or a prize, they are one of a small group of people who have been chosen from a larger group. The successful person is then chosen from the small group. If you’ve been asked for an interview you are probably on a short list of no more than six. N-COUNT 2. If someone or something is shortlisted for a job or a prize, they are put on a shortlist. (mainly BRIT) He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for literature several times... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed for/as n