SOLICIT


Meaning of SOLICIT in English

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.

N-UNCOUNT

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