solicit
verb
[ səˈlɪsɪt ]
• ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone.
• "he called a meeting to solicit their views"
Similar:
ask for,
request,
apply for,
put in for,
seek,
beg,
plead for,
sue for,
crave,
canvass,
call for,
drum up,
press for,
impetrate,
ask,
beseech,
implore,
plead with,
entreat,
appeal to,
apply to,
lobby,
petition,
importune,
supplicate,
call on,
press,
pressure,
obsecrate,
• accost someone and offer one's or someone else's services as a prostitute.
• "he met her while she was soliciting in Soho"
Similar:
work as a prostitute,
engage in prostitution,
accost people,
make sexual advances,
tout (for business),
hustle,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French solliciter, from Latin sollicitare ‘agitate’, from sollicitus ‘anxious’, from sollus ‘entire’ + citus (past participle of ciere ‘set in motion’).
