longlist
Speech parts
1. longlist - Noun
2. longlist - Verb
Meaning
longlist (plural longlists)
An initial, relatively long, shortlist, from which a further shortlist is selected.
longlist (third-person singular simple present longlists, present participle longlisting, simple past and past participle longlisted)
(transitive) To add to a longlist; to consider prior to a later and narrower shortlist.
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Examples
In 1993, two of the judges threatened to walk out when Trainspotting appeared on the longlist; Irvine Welsh 's novel was pulled from the shortlist to satisfy them.
A nice response too from Fiona Mozley when reflecting on her on the 2017 Man Booker Prize longlist: ‘I already feel like I’ve won,’ she said recently.
The longlist has been unveiled for the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University in Montreal.
Because the novel was not published when the longlist was announced, there had been no build up.
"Nine readers of varied backgrounds, taste and experience came together to create an awards longlist reflecting just that," said fiction judge Patrick Smith.
The books on this year's longlist for the Children's Fiction Prize are "challenging, funny, exciting, beautiful, thoughtful, bonkers," said judge and author Gillian Cross.