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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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "prostitution":

    prostitute, vice, prostitutes

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How to use prostitution in a sentence?

  1. Robert Beiser:

    Over the past 18 years, we've seen tremendous advances in the ability to serve survivors, coming out of situations like that, and much more awareness of how social inequality, and even the criminal justice systems, focuses on criminalizing victims of trafficking for crimes like prostitution, rather than rather than sex buyers who have full have decision making over who they exploit.

  2. William Pryor:

    A constitutional right that protects 'the choice of one's partner' and 'whether and how to connect sexually' must logically extend to activities like prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia.

  3. Robert Kraft:

    New England Patriots also have an interesting provision in Florida law that you have to complete 100 hours of community service and attend a prostitution and human trafficking awareness course.

  4. Steven Sumlin:

    That was the hook, that's what would get the females to contact him, he would make all sorts of promises to these women and before you know it, they were caught up in a prostitution ring.

  5. Jeffrey Hurant:

    I don't think that we do anything to promote prostitution, i think we do good things for good people, and we bring good people together.


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