Usage of "short list"

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

Uso de short list em inglês

He said there were three candidates on the short list, including himself. 
 Reuters 

Certainly this would not be on Greta's short list of acceptable behavior. 
 Summers at Castle Auburn 

Next morning she was on every short list of potential presidential candidates. 
 The Guardian 

I guess it does have to be a short list, I said. 
 Blood Noir 

It was chosen from 47 books, and a short list of four. 
 The Irish Times 

I'll give you my short list: either Heath, Roger, Jake, or Diana. 
 G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery 

I don't know... can you at least give me a short list? 
 A knife edge 

My design for the British Heritage Museum has made the short list. 
 Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions 

I made a short list of what I found in Herb's papers. 
 Happiness key 

We agree it's a short list that omits some pretty big names. 
 Wired 

One of those coaches on the short list is Syracuse's Jim Boeheim. 
 Reuters 

Actually, you're on the short list for a particular position already. 
 Burning up 

EARLIER this week, the Mercury Music Prize short list was announced in Britain. 
 The Irish Times 

Fine with me; I had enough trouble with the short list. 
 Blood Noir 

There was a pitifully short list of names of known Anti-Other Alliance members. 
 Nocturnal 

He said he had drawn up a short list of three preferred candidates. 
 The Irish Times 

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Short list ao longo do tempo

Short list nas variantes da língua

Irlanda

Comum

Estados Unidos da América

Comum

Reino Unido

Menos comum

Significados de short list em inglês