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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise;
- Example: "a prospectus should contain the facts that an investor needs to make an informed decision"

2. a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university;
[syn: course catalog, course catalogue, prospectus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prospectus \Pro*spec"tus\, n. [L., a prospect, sight, view: cf. F. prospectus. See Prospect.] A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prospectus n 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" 2: a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university [syn: course catalog, course catalogue, prospectus]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

93 Moby Thesaurus words for "prospectus": actuarial prediction, agenda, aim, ambition, animus, announcement, apocalypse, aspiration, batting order, bill, bill of fare, blueprint, budget, calendar, card, carte du jour, conspectus, counsel, description, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, docket, effect, fixed purpose, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, function, game plan, guesswork, idea, improbability, intendment, intent, intention, lineup, list of agenda, meaning, menu, mind, motive, nisus, omen, outline, plan, playbill, point, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostication, program, program of operation, programma, project, projection, promise, prophecy, prophesying, proposal, proposition, protocol, purpose, resolution, resolve, roster, sake, scenario, schedule, scheme, slate, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, striving, study, vaticination, view, will