HOW TO PRONOUNCE
prospectus
/pɹəˈspɛktəs/
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Give “spec” the main beat.
Use three syllables and a light first vowel. Keep s and p connected before the strongest short e, then retain k and t before the unstressed final vowel and s.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The folder contains a prospectus.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does prospectus mean?
noun
- A document, distributed to prospective members, investors, buyers, or participants, which describes an institution (such as a university), a publication, or a business and what it has to offer.
- A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write).
- A booklet or other document giving details of a share offer for the benefit of investors.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹəˈspɛktəs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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In the pages of books
See this word in context.
In the "prospectus book" among the series of famous note-books, all the references and data apply to gas.
Good, honest, retired ministers would come periodically and sell me stock in some new enterprise that had millions in it--in its prospectus.
More book examples (3)
A certain company, of which no prospectus has been issued, nor of which anything is publicly known, appears in the mining lists.
Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon’s day, and which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been converted into rags.
He will see in the Prospectus his name attached to the fish; I set my shoulders to the work with a good heart.