Meaning of prostitution | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.
   uncountable, usually
2. Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay
3. a person who has sexual intercourse for payment. prostituut عاهِرَه، مومِس проститутка prostituta prostitut, -ka die Prostituierte prostitueret πόρνηprostituto; prostituta prostituut فاحشه prostituoitu prostitué/-ée זונה वेश्या prostituált pelacur vændiskona/-karl prostituta 売春婦 매춘부 prostitutė prostitūta pelacur prostituéprostituertprostytutka هرزه، بد كاره prostituta prostituată проститутка prostitútka prostitutka prostitutka prostituerad โสเภณี orospu 娼妓 проститутка, повія رنڈي، طائفہ gái m...
4. Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.
   broadly, uncountable, usually
5. Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services
6. prostitusie بَغاء، دَعارَه، عَهارَه проституция prostituição prostituce die Prostitution prostitution πορνείαprostitución prostitutsioon روسپی گری prostituutio prostitutionזנות वेश्या वृत्ति prostitúció pelacuran vændi prostituzione 売春 매춘 prostitucija prostitūcija pelacuran prostitutieprostitusjon prostytucja بد لمنى، فحشا prostituição prostituţie проституция prostitúcia prostitucija prostitucija prostitution การเป็นโสเภณี orospuluk 賣淫 проституція رنڈي کا پيشہ nạn mại dâm 卖淫
7. Debasement for profit or impure motives.
   broadly, uncountable, usually
8. Debasement for profit or impure motives
9. prostitución.
10. The practice of engaging in sex acts in exchange for money.
11. The practice of offering oneself or using one's talents for an unworthy purpose, especially for personal gain.
12. the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
13. base or unworthy use, as of talent or ability.
14. n (lit, fig) → Prostitution f; (of one’s talents, honour, ideals) → Verkaufen nt
    n (lit, fig)

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Examples

“His addiction brought him to the point that prostitution was the only means he had to survive.”

“Sir Howard by his arts stole from them this their only treasure, and to conceal from them the baseness of his despicable seduction, removed to a distance the deluded couple,—loaded them with his favours,—the wages of their child's prostitution.”

“The FBI typically does not investigate adult prostitution, leaving it as a state and local matter, but in recent years it has made child prostitution a priority in a program the FBI calls Operation Cross Country. The program includes highway billboards asking people to call the FBI with tips.”

“The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.”

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