shortlist

• short-list

shortlist (plural shortlists)

1. Alternative form of short list.
   • 2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11:

     The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns.

shortlist (third-person singular simple present shortlists, present participle shortlisting, simple past and past participle shortlisted)

1. To place something on a short list.
   • 2019 October, “First Trenitalia wins West Coast Partnership”, in Modern Railways, page 11:

     First and Trenitalia were initially shortlisted for the East Midlands franchise but withdrew from bidding to focus on the West Coast Partnership, while Trenitalia was shortlisted as a sole entity for the South Eastern franchise but again withdrew from the competition.

• shortlisted

• “shortlist”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.