solicit

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Plain form
solicit

Third-person singular
solicits

Past tense
solicited

Past participle
solicited

Present participle
soliciting

  1. (transitive) If you solicit money, help, advice, etc. from someone, you ask them for it.
  2. (transitive & intransitive) If someone solicits someone else, they offer to perform sexual activity for that person, usually for pay.
    A number of women were soliciting in front of the bar.

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