prospectus

1. 1.

   a formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise

   “a prospectus should contain the facts that an investor needs to make an informed decision”

   Broaderoffer
2. 2.

   a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university

   Synonymscourse catalogcourse catalogue

   Broadercatalog

   Narrowerpreliminary prospectus

Other forms of prospectus

plural

prospectuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prospectus

What does prospectus mean?

prospectus means "a formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prospectus?

prospectus has 3 syllables: pro-spec-tus. The stress falls on "spec". In IPA it is /pɹəˈspɛktəs/.

What is another word for prospectus?

Close synonyms include course catalog, course catalogue. 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 prospectus a common word?

prospectus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.