Prospectus

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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     scheme of an unpublished literary work.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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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