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noun
- A person who performs sexual activity for payment
- A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
- A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour
verb (prostitut, ing)
- (context, transitive, usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
- (transitive) To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
Etymology:
- From Latin prostitutum, past participle of prostituere, from prefix pro-, "for" or "before", + statuere (turns into -stituere with prefixes appended), "to set up or erect".
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