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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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#232939whoredom

How to use prostitution in a sentence?

  1. Stormy Daniels:

    It was not prostitution, what I do for a living should not matter.

  2. 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.

  3. Aaron Fischer:

    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.

  4. William Monning:

    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.

  5. Samia Ghali:

    It's got everything - prostitution, drugs trafficking, violence. It's a dangerous cocktail and we saw evidence of that today.


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