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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
finalist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
▪ As a National Merit finalist, with her Virgil and calculus and swim-ming championships, Celestine had her choice of colleges.
■ NOUN
cup
▪ But at Stradey, at the rematch of last season's Cup finalists, Mr Wag's dictum was borne out again.
▪ City were runners-up to Huddersfield in the League in 1924 and losing Cup finalists the following year.
▪ The Cup finalists of 1934 promoted brands of trousers, shoe-polish, and Shredded Wheat.
■ VERB
choose
▪ The company was chosen from six finalists for the 1991 Business Enterprise Award.
▪ She and a panel of judges will choose 10 finalists, and the winner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both boy finalists are members of this scheme and they exemplified the improvements made.
▪ Carl Lydiate took six wickets to set last year's beaten finalists Croston on the way against Rainford.
▪ She and a panel of judges will choose 10 finalists, and the winner.
▪ The 12 finalists were chosen from more than 250 entries from across the nation.
▪ The 34C-24-34 part-time model was the only one of our finalists who likes her legs.
▪ The County of Ventura had us as a finalist, but decided to go with another plan.
▪ There will be an opportunity to attend rehearsals, interview finalists and take photographs.
▪ Three to five finalists will be announced on April 19.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finalist

Finalist \Fi"nal*ist\, n. (Sports) Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
finalist

"competitor remaining after eliminations," 1896, from final + -ist. Earlier "one who believes the end has been reached" (1883).

Wiktionary
finalist

n. 1 Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition. 2 A university student in his/her final year of study.

WordNet
finalist

n. a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition

Usage examples of "finalist".

If the finalist in his place was supposed to be Chalaine, the sorcerer chosen to face her should be keyed to her.

Monday evening, you have not been chosen as a finalist for the Miss Yorkville 2001 title.

He has also showed up on the Hugo final ballot, as well as being a finalist for the British Fantasy Award, the John W.

It won the Nebula Award for 1983, and was also a Hugo Finalist that year.

Now all he had to do was wander round with a tray of drinks, making sure that he served the finalist, Hilary Frampton.

He has several times been a finalist for the Nebula Award, as well as for the World Fantasy Award and for the John W.

Nebula award for best novelette in 1967 and was a finalist for the Hugo in the same year.

Geri, Kyle, and I waited with all the animation of the teenaged finalist in one of her sulks.

Hugo and Nebula Awards finalist some twenty times-more than any other writer.

She has been a Nebula Awards finalist four of the seven years the awards have been presented.

She learned some time yesterday that her years of subtle lobbying and careful political contributions have at last paid off, that she is among the finalists for a vacancy on the federal court of appeals.

Miss Gebhearn, and I have the updated list of finalists in my briefcase.

Some of the finalists were unavailable, and they produced the replacements.

I write this in August, 1999, The History of Our World Beyond the Wave is one of the finalists for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for 1999.

The last round of trials had been fiercely difficult, enough to eliminate over a quarter of the finalists completely.