Crossword clues for shortlist
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to place (someone) on the 'short list' " for advancement or preferment, 1955, from short list (n.) in this sense, which is attested by 1927.
Wiktionary
alt. To place something on a short list vb. To place something on a short list
WordNet
v. put someone or something on a short list
Wikipedia
ShortList is a free weekly magazine published in the United Kingdom, which launched on 20 September 2007. The magazine has the biggest circulation of any men's lifestyle magazine in Britain with Martin Robinson as its editor. Mike Soutar, former editorial director of IPC Media, editor of FHM in the UK and US Maxim, is the CEO.
ShortList Media launched Stylist, a similar magazine for women, in 2009.
Usage examples of "shortlist".
Out of their shortlist of possible interviewees, it seemed that the person with the most free time on his hands at the moment was the bookkeeper.
The Stone Diaries won the Pulitzer Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
A few stray envelopes surfaced, and I pulled those from among the discarded magazines and dog-eared catalogs, bullshit from the look of them: a bank statement for an account I'd closed many years before, a department store circular, and a notice from Publisher's Clearing House telling me I'd been shortlisted for a million bucks.