prostitute
noun
[ ˈprɒstɪtjuːt ]
• a person, in particular a woman, who engages in sexual activity for payment.
Similar:
sex worker,
call girl,
courtesan,
male prostitute,
rent boy,
call boy,
gigolo,
model,
escort,
masseuse,
grande horizontale,
fille de joie,
pro,
working girl,
tom,
woman on the game,
renter,
hooker,
hustler,
ho,
puta,
tart,
streetwalker,
woman of the streets,
lady of the night,
scarlet woman,
chippy,
moll,
cocotte,
strumpet,
harlot,
trollop,
wanton,
woman of ill repute,
lady of pleasure,
Cyprian,
doxy,
drab,
quean,
trull,
wench,
whore,
prostitute
verb
• offer (someone) for sexual activity in exchange for payment.
• "although she was paid £15 to join a man at his table, she never prostituted herself"
Origin:
mid 16th century (as a verb): from Latin prostitut- ‘exposed publicly, offered for sale’, from the verb prostituere, from pro- ‘before’ + statuere ‘set up, place’.
