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Definition of Prostitute

1. Verb. Sell one's body; exchange sex for money.

Definition of Prostitute

1. v. t. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

2. a. Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.

3. n. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.

Definition of Prostitute

1. Noun. A woman, or other person, who performs sexual activity for payment. ¹

2. Noun. A woman, or other person, who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people. ¹

3. Noun. A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To use one's talents in return for money or fame ¹

7. Verb. (figuratively) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prostitute

1. [v -TUTED, -TUTING, -TUTES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostitute

Literary usage of Prostitute

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"The prostitute and prostitution have long been recognized as social and moral ... Take, for instance, the idea of driving the prostitute from pillar to post ..."

2. Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George Jackson Kneeland, Katharine Bement Davis (1913)
"CHAPTER V prostitute AND CUSTOMER (a) THE prostitute THE professional prostitute, in the sense in which the term is here used, is the woman or girl who ..."

3. Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George Jackson Kneeland, Katharine Bement Davis (1913)
"CHAPTER V prostitute AND CUSTOMER (a) THE prostitute THE professional prostitute, in the sense in which the term is here used, is the woman or girl who ..."

4. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"A prostitute —The Term Defined.—Ou the trial of an indictment in the Butler county district court, Iowa, for a libel in charging that one LP aided her ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"prostitute. Chinese prostitute as laborer, eee ''Chinese Laborer." An allegation in an Indictment that a female was enticed away with the intent of ..."

6. Fifty Contemporary One-act Plays by Frank Shay, Pierre Loving (1920)
"prostitute. And do you really think it an honor for one to remain with you? ... prostitute [looking around in terror]. It's awful to be with so many sick ..."

7. Fifty Contemporary One-act Plays by Frank Shay, Pierre Loving (1920)
"prostitute. A fool, and yet he knows what he says. [Gives him bread. ... prostitute. It is the curse of the street that rests on you as it does on the ..."

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