prostitution
Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.
Example
“His addiction brought him to the point that prostitution was the only means he had to survive.”
Other meanings
Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.
Debasement for profit or impure motives.
“The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.”
Related words
- antiprostitution
- cyberprostitution
- presstitution
- prostitutional
- child prostitution
- prostitute's pupil
- temple prostitution
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "prostitutio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “prostitution” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.