how to pronounce prod

/pɹɒd/

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prod is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of prod in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to prod a three-minute limit on speeches …”

meanings of prod

noun:

A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
A production.
A poke.
A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.
A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.

verb:

To poke, to push, to touch.
To prick with a goad.
To encourage, to prompt.

prod frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word prod occurs in english on average 1.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics prod can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that prod can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;