short\ list

short\ list
• short list
• short-listed
v. phr.
To place on the list of select finalists for a job.

Only three of the twenty-seven applicants were short-listed for the assistant professorial vacancy in our department.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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