transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃɔ:(r)tlɪst ]
( shortlists, shortlisting, shortlisted)
Note: The spelling 'short list' is used in American English and sometimes in British English for the noun.
1.
If someone is on a shortlist , for example for a job or a prize, they are one of a small group of people who have been chosen from a larger group. The successful person is then chosen from the small group.
If you’ve been asked for an interview you are probably on a short list of no more than six.
N-COUNT
2.
If someone or something is shortlisted for a job or a prize, they are put on a shortlist. ( mainly BRIT )
He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for literature several times...
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed for/as n