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shortlist

UK // mainly British //

入围名单,入选名单,入围清单,候选名单

Related Words

waiting list候补名单,等待名单,轮候名单,輪候名單contenders竞争者,争夺者,角逐者,竞标者shortlist入围名单,入选名单,入围清单,候选名单

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inshort list
Synonyms
waiting list候补名单,等待名单,轮候名单,輪候名單contenders竞争者,争夺者,角逐者,竞标者

Examples

  • The Washington Post also mentioned Lynch and former Associate Attorney General Tony West as candidates on the shortlist.

  • One example is a design recently named to the shortlist for the 2014 World Architecture Festival awards.

  • Last week, The Past failed to make the shortlist for the Academy Award for best foreign film, which A Separation won in 2012.

  • The new pontiff gets the nod over a shortlist that included Edward Snowden, Ted Cruz and Bashar al-Assad.

  • And last week both Reuters and Business Insider ran articles suggesting that Ferguson was on the shortlist.

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