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downselected

downselected is the simple past and past participle of downselect.

Meaning of downselect

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.

Questions about downselected

What is downselected the simple past and past participle of?
Downselected is the simple past and past participle of downselect.

Words near downselected in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downselected (page history and authors); downselect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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