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Definition of Prostitution

1. Noun. Offering sexual intercourse for pay.

Definition of Prostitution

1. n. The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

Definition of Prostitution

1. Noun. Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods. ¹

2. Noun. (by extension) Debasement for unworthy profit or motives. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prostitution

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostitution

Literary usage of Prostitution

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

1. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"C. prostitution.1 By prostitution must be understood the social fact that ... To find the cause of prostitution in our present society it is necessary to ..."

2. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"Sir James G. Frazer suggests that this kind of prostitution likewise may be a survival of early communism. " In course of time;" he says, ..."

3. A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls Into by Dorothy Q. Thomas, Sidney Jones (1993)
"The absolute prohibition on trafficking clearly distinguished it from prostitution, which was legal at the time. However, when prostitution was itself ..."

4. Journal of Social Hygiene by American Social Hygiene Association (1919)
"One event alone is worth mentioning: the suppression of regulated prostitution in Sweden, as a result of the investigations of the parliamentary commission ..."

5. 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. (1914)
"I am informed that our efforts to confine vice are within a few months already futile; that houses of prostitution have sprung up again all over town. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Behind every effect there is a cause; in the case of prostitution, ... prostitution costs a man money; to a woman it yields money and many a girl of ..."

7. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1903)
"SCHRANK (J.) Die prostitution in Wien. 2 Bde. 8275. ее. 9. (16. ... 61. prostitution in the Transvaal). Laws and Regulations. prostitution ..."

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