downselect

to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration

Verb

  1. to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration
    • We need to check with Quality Assurance before we downselect the test equipment vendor.

Origin

Etymology tree English down- English select English downselect From down- + select.

Forms

downselects downselecting downselected

Related

narrow down shortlist