Synonyms for prostitution
ˌprɒs tɪˈtu ʃən, -ˈtyu-pros·ti·tu·tion

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1. prostitutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   oldest profession, worlds oldest profession

2. prostitutionnoun

   Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods.

   Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.

   Synonyms:
   oldest profession, worlds oldest profession

3. prostitutionnoun

   Debasement for unworthy profit or motives.

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

   Synonyms:
   worlds oldest profession, oldest profession

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1. prostitution, harlotry, whoredomnoun

   offering sexual intercourse for pay

   Synonyms:
   whoredom, harlotry

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1. prostitutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   misuse, abuse, perversion, profanation

2. prostitutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   unlawful sexual intercourse (on the part of a woman, for hire), harlotry

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1. prostitutionnoun

   Synonyms:
   harlotry, social evil, whoredom, perversion, misuse, profanation

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1. List of paraphrases for "prostitution":

   prostitute, vice, prostitutes

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How to use prostitution in a sentence?

1. Layeq Khan Wahdat:

   Aryana Sayeed's concerts are not in accordance with our society and Islam, dress-up like this can promote prostitution and seduction.

2. Polly Adler:

   What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

3. Robert Kraft:

   Usually the prostitute gets arrested or the person who's running the brothel, so this is an unusual approach, to round up the' johns.' You see it happening periodically in jurisdictions where there's a major prostitution problem and he just got caught in the net.

4. Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart:

   We have no naive notion that we'll end prostitution, end trafficking, end exploitation of children, what we've wanted all along is to make it more difficult and make (traffickers) easier to catch.

5. Kendis Paris:

   A lot of guys are not sure if they're really looking at prostitution or trafficking and they just need to be helped.