0 a list of people, books, etc. being considered for a prize from which a shortlist (= a shorter list of those judged the most suitable) will be chosen:
Only two small publishers are on the longlist this year.
The longlist will be whittled down to four.
1 to include a person, book, piece of music, etc. on a longlist:
The Miles Franklin Award has released their longlist for this year .
Five days later, the longlist was announced in alphabetical order.
20 authors were longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.
If longlisted, they will be invited to the RSA for a briefing and shortlisting.
Some 4,000 copies of each of the longlisted books are instantly bought by libraries.
