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What (who) is Solicit - definition
OFFERING ECONOMIC EXCHANGE GOODS OR SERVICES
Soliciting; Solicit; Solicited; Persistent soliciting; No soliciting; Street solicitation; Solitication; Solicitation to commit a crime; Call to commit a crime
solicit
(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
• soliciting
Girls could get very heavy sentences for soliciting-nine months or more.
N-UNCOUNT
Solicit
- a Latinism rarely used.
II. Solicit ·vt To urge the claims of; to Plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
III. Solicit ·vt To endeavor to obtain; to Seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.
IV. Solicit ·vt To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.
solicit
v. a.
1.
Ask (earnestly), request (urgently), entreat, beg, pray, implore, crave, importune, beseech, supplicate, petition, conjure, press, urge, appeal to.
2.
Invite, summon, awake to action, excite, awaken, arouse.
3.
Disturb, disquiet, make anxious.
4.
Seek, endeavor to obtain.
Wikipedia
Solicitation
Solicitation is the act of offering, or attempting to purchase, goods and/or services. Legal status may be specific to the time or place where it occurs. The crime of "solicitation to commit a crime" occurs when a person encourages, "solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause" another person to attempt or commit a crime, with the purpose of thereby facilitating the attempt or commission of that crime.: 698–702
Examples of use of Solicit
1. While they‘re on the list, casinos cannot solicit them.
2. AMBASSADOR BOLTON:Â They can certainly solicit indications of interest, yes.
3. Under law, sex workers cannot solicit customers in public.
4. Meanwhile, Simcox continues to solicit donations to build a fence.
5. Nour and Gomaa visited Brotherhood leaders to solicit support.