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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

prospectus

/pɹəˈspɛktəs/

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American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
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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

  1. 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.
  2. A document which describes a proposed endeavor (venture, undertaking), such as a literary work (which one proposes to write).
  3. 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.

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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In the pages of books

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In the "prospectus book" among the series of famous note-books, all the references and data apply to gas.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
Good, honest, retired ministers would come periodically and sell me stock in some new enterprise that had millions in it--in its prospectus.
Ralph Albert ParletteThe University of Hard KnocksProject Gutenberg ebook #455
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.
William, F.S.A., of Exeter CottonEverybody's Guide to Money Matters With a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing thereinProject Gutenberg ebook #1903
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.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
He will see in the Prospectus his name attached to the fish; I set my shoulders to the work with a good heart.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087