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Prostitution

Prostitution Meaning & Definition
Prostitution Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Prostitution?

[n] offering sexual intercourse for pay

Synonyms | Synonyms for Prostitution: harlotry | whoredom

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See Also | vice crime

Prostitution In Webster's Dictionary

\Pros`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. prostitutio: cf. F. prostitution.] 1. The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman. 2. The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press. ``Mental prostitution.'' --Byron.

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