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booklet
a very short book with paper covers that usually contains information on one particular subject:
• a free booklet on drug abuse • Have you read the information booklet?
brochure
a thin book with paper covers that gives information on something you may want to buy or advertises something:
• glossy holiday brochures • The hotel was nothing like it said it would be in the brochure. • The brochure shows you all the different types of washing machine.
leaflet
a small book or piece of paper, often only one or two folded pages, that advertises something or gives information on a particular subject:
• a leaflet about library services • They were handing out leaflets for the Socialist Party.
pamphlet
a very thin book with paper covers, in which someone writes about their opinions about something, or gives information about something:
• a political pamphlet • Paine wrote a pamphlet about slavery. • The pamphlet tells you all you need to know about growing cactuses.
prospectus
especially British English a thin paper book that advertises and gives information about a school, college, new business etc:
• I asked them to send me the college prospectus.
flyer
a small sheet of paper advertising something:
• People were giving out flyers advertising the fair.
tract
a thin short book, especially about a moral or religious subject - a rather formal use:
• Two women were handing out religious tracts.
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