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

Roget 86: list, catalog, catalogue, inventory; register etc. (record) 551.    account; bill, bill of costs; terrier; tally, listing, itemization; atlas; book, ledger; catalogue raisonne [Fr.]; tableau; invoice, bill of lading; prospectus; bill of fare, menu, carte [Fr.]; score, census, statistics, returns.    [list of topics in a document] contents, table of contents, outline; synopsis.    [written list used as an aid to memory] checklist.    table, chart, database; index, inverted file, word list, concordance.    dictionary, lexicon; vocabulary, glossary; thesaurus.    file, card index, card file, rolodex, address book.    Red book, Blue book, Domesday book; cadastre [Fr.]; directory, gazetter^†.    almanac; army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy list; Almanach de Gotha^†, cadaster; Lloyd's register, nautical almanac; who's who; Guiness's Book of World Records.    roll; check roll, checker roll, bead roll; muster roll, muster book; roster, panel, jury list; cartulary, diptych.    ... show more

Roget 510: foresight, prospicience^†, prevision, long-sightedness; anticipation; providence etc. (preparation) 673.    forethought, forecast; predeliberation^†, presurmise^†; foregone conclusion etc. (prejudgment) 481; prudence etc. (caution) 864.    foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion^†, presentiment; second sight; sagacity etc. (intelligence) 498; antepast^†, prelibation^†, prophasis^†.    prospect etc. (expectation) 507; foretaste; prospectus etc. (plan) 626.    ... show more

Roget 596: compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo [Lat.], analysis, pandect^†, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.    album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta^†, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium^†, flowers, anthology, collectanea^†, analecta^†; compilation.    recapitulation, resume, review.    abbreviation, abbreviature^†; contraction; shortening etc. 201; compression etc. 195.    ... show more

Roget 626: plan, scheme, design, project; proposal, proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution etc. (provision) 673; deep-laid plan etc. (premeditated) 611; system etc. (order) 58; organization etc. (arrangement) 60; germ etc. (cause) 153.    sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche [Fr.], brouillon [Fr.]; rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.    drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation) 554.    forecast, program, programme, prospectus; carte du pays [Fr.]; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare etc. (food) 298; base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U.S.], ticket [U.S.].    role; policy etc. (line of conduct) 692.    contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying [U.S.]; stratagem etc. (cunning) 702; trick etc. (deception) 545; alternative, loophole; shift etc. (substitute) 147; last shift etc. (necessity) 601.    measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card, court card; cheval de bataille [Fr.], great gun; coup, coup d'etat [Fr.]; clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea.    intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot^†, machination; subplot, underplot^†, counterplot.    schemer, schemist^†, schematist^†; strategist, machinator; projector, artist, promoter, designer etc. v.; conspirator; intrigant etc. (cunning) 702^†.    ... show more

A catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university.

synonyms: course catalog, course catalogue.

Dutch: prospectus