preliminary prospectus

1. 1.

   a first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus

   “because some portions of the cover page are printed in red ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red herring”

   Synonymsred herring

   Broadercourse catalog

Questions about preliminary prospectus

What does preliminary prospectus mean?

preliminary prospectus means "a first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus".

What is another word for preliminary prospectus?

Close synonyms include red herring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is preliminary prospectus a common word?

preliminary prospectus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.