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shortlisting

shortlisting is the present participle and gerund of shortlist.

Meaning of shortlist

Verb

shortlist (third-person singular simple present shortlists, present participle shortlisting, simple past and past participle shortlisted)

  1. To place something on a short list.
    • First and Trenitalia were initially shortlisted for the East Midlands franchise but withdrew from bidding to focus on the West Coast Partnership, while Trenitalia was shortlisted as a sole entity for the South Eastern franchise but again withdrew from the competition.2019 October, “First Trenitalia wins West Coast Partnership”, in Modern Railways, page 11

Questions about shortlisting

What is shortlisting the present participle and gerund of?
Shortlisting is the present participle and gerund of shortlist.

Words near shortlisting in the dictionary

  1. shortlisted
  2. shortlistee
  3. shortlistees
  4. shortlister
  5. shortlisters
  6. shortlisting
  7. shortlists
  8. shortlived
  9. shortliver
  10. shortlivers
  11. shortly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortlisting (page history and authors); shortlist (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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