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To: SmokingJoe

So “shortlist” is now a noun?


4 posted on 09/19/2020 6:34:40 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Disappointment is inevitable. Discouragement is a choice.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
1. countable noun
If someone is on a shortlist, for example for a job or a prize, they are one of a small group of people who have been chosen from a larger group. The successful person is then chosen from the small group.
If you've been asked for an interview you are probably on a shortlist of no more than six. [+ of]
2. verb [usually passive]
If someone or something is shortlisted for a job or a prize, they are put on a shortlist.
[mainly British]
He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for literature several times. [be VERB-ed + for]
Nottingham was shortlisted as Entrepreneurial University of the Year in this year's Times Higher Education Awards. [beV-ed for/as n]
[Also be V-ed + as]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/shortlist

10 posted on 09/19/2020 6:41:29 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: MayflowerMadam

I enjoy the grammar police on a Saturday morning. Irregardless of what others think.


14 posted on 09/19/2020 6:48:55 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: MayflowerMadam

So “shortlist” is now a noun?
+++++
“She has been shortlisted”.
“She is on the shortlist”.

A verb and a noun. Seems OK to me.


29 posted on 09/19/2020 7:04:41 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Can be a noun or a verb, depending on the sentence. If you’re on a shortlist, it’s a noun. If your boss is going to shortlist you to head a new department and get a $250K bonus; it’s a verb.


48 posted on 09/19/2020 7:35:28 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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