Definition of "short-list" []

To include (a candidate for a job, for example) on a shortlist. (verb-transitive)

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Use "short-list" in a sentence

"Utilities will tend to dominate a short-list of stocks that fit these measures, but there are some other decent candidates as well, such as AT&T."
"Although he may be on the short-list for the Nobel Peace Prize!"
"His breakthrough feature film, 12 Angry Men 1957 sits on my own short-list of all-time favorite pictures."

Words like "short-list"

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