transcription, транскрипция: [ səlɪsɪt ]
( solicits, soliciting, solicited)
1.
If you solicit money, help, support, or an opinion from someone, you ask them for it. ( FORMAL )
He’s already solicited their support on health care reform...
No tuition was charged by the school, which solicited contributions from the society’s members.
VERB : V n , V n from n
2.
When prostitutes solicit , they offer to have sex with people in return for money.
Prostitutes were forbidden to solicit on public roads and in public places.
VERB : V
• so‧lic‧it‧ing
Girls could get very heavy sentences for soliciting–nine months or more.
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