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downselect

downselect verb: to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration.

Verb

downselect (third-person singular simple present downselects, present participle downselecting, simple past and past participle downselected)

  1. to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration
    • We need to check with Quality Assurance before we downselect the test equipment vendor.

Forms of downselect

third-person singular presentdownselects
present participledownselecting
past participledownselected
pastdownselected

Origin of downselect

From down- + select.

Questions about downselect

What does downselect mean?
Downselect means to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration.
What part of speech is downselect?
Downselect is a verb.
What is the past tense of downselect?
The past tense of downselect is downselected.

Words near downselect in the dictionary

  1. downscaling
  2. downscalings
  3. downscan
  4. downscans
  5. downsection
  6. downselect
  7. downselected
  8. downselecting
  9. downselection
  10. downselections
  11. downselects

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