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downselects

downselects is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 downselects

What is downselects the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Downselects is the third-person singular simple present indicative of downselect.

Words near downselects in the dictionary

  1. downselect
  2. downselected
  3. downselecting
  4. downselection
  5. downselections
  6. downselects
  7. downsend
  8. downset
  9. downsets
  10. downsetting
  11. downsettings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: downselects (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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