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Synonyms for prostitution
ˌprɒs tɪˈtu ʃən, -ˈtyu-pros·ti·tu·tion
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Wiktionary
prostitutionnoun
Synonyms:
oldest profession, worlds oldest professionprostitutionnoun
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 professionprostitutionnoun
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
Princeton's WordNet
Dictionary of English Synonymes
prostitutionnoun
Synonyms:
misuse, abuse, perversion, profanationprostitutionnoun
Synonyms:
unlawful sexual intercourse (on the part of a woman, for hire), harlotry
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
prostitutionnoun
Synonyms:
harlotry, social evil, whoredom, perversion, misuse, profanation
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "prostitution":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2474 | vice | |
#17686 | prostitution | |
#26684 | prostitutes | |
#28024 | prostitute | |
#232939 | whoredom |
How to use prostitution in a sentence?
It was not prostitution, what I do for a living should not matter.
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.
When you actually crack a prostitution ring or crackdown on junkets, that's always going to create a lot of headlines. Short term, it might be painful to see these unsavory things.
As we learn more, particularly about women who engage in prostitution, we're learning more and more about human trafficking, there is also an intersection with drug and alcohol use.
It's got everything - prostitution, drugs trafficking, violence. It's a dangerous cocktail and we saw evidence of that today.
Translations for prostitution
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- دعارة, فَحْشاءArabic
- fahişəlikAzerbaijani
- прастытуцыяBelarusian
- проституцияBulgarian
- prostitucióCatalan, Valencian
- prostituceCzech
- prostitutionDanish
- ProstitutionGerman
- ahasiwɔwɔEwe
- πορνείαGreek
- prostituoEsperanto
- prostituciónSpanish
- prostituzioBasque
- تنفروشی, روسپیگریPersian
- prostituutioFinnish
- skøkjulevnaðurFaroese
- prostitutionFrench
- strìopachas, siùrsachdScottish Gaelic
- prostituciónGalician
- वेश्यावृत्तिHindi
- prostitúcióHungarian
- prostituzioneItalian
- 売春, 淫売, 買春, 切り売り主義Japanese
- 성매매, 매춘Korean
- kairautangaMāori
- проституција, курварлакMacedonian
- വേശ്യMalayalam
- prostitutieDutch
- prostytucjaPolish
- prostituiçãoPortuguese
- проституцияRussian
- prostitucija, проституцијаSerbo-Croatian
- prostitúciaSlovak
- prostitúcijaSlovene
- prostitucionAlbanian
- prostitutionSwedish
- ukahaba, umalayaSwahili
- விபச்சாரம்Tamil
- వ్యభిచారంTelugu
- การค้าประเวณีThai
- fahişelikTurkish
- проституціяUkrainian
- mại dâmVietnamese
- 賣淫Chinese
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