short list

1. 1.

   a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen

   Synonymsshortlist

   Broaderlist

Questions about short list

What does short list mean?

short list means "a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen".

What is another word for short list?

Close synonyms include shortlist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short list a common word?

short list is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.