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soliciting

[suh-lis-it]

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verb (used with object)

to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.

to entreat or petition (someone or some agency): to solicit the committee for funds.

to seek to influence or incite to action, especially unlawful or wrong action.

to offer to have sex with in exchange for money.

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verb (used without object)

to make a petition or request, as for something desired.

to solicit orders or trade, as for a business: No soliciting allowed in this building.

to offer to have sex with someone in exchange for money.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English soliciten < Middle French solliciter < Latin sollicitāre to excite, agitate, derivative of sollicitus troubled (soll(us) whole + -i- -i- + citus, past participle of ciēre to arouse)

Related forms

pre·so·lic·it, verb (used with object)

re·so·lic·it, verb

su·per·so·lic·it, verb

un·so·lic·it·ed, adjective

Synonyms
2. beseech, beg. 3. excite, arouse, provoke.

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Example Sentences

He said he always respects the no soliciting signs he encounters on doors.

If a college isn't out soliciting donors, another organization will get their charitable contributions.

Auctions can overcome these shortcomings by soliciting a wide range of bids from many people.

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He said he always respects the no soliciting signs he encounters on doors.

If a college isn't out soliciting donors, another organization will get their charitable contributions.

Auctions can overcome these shortcomings by soliciting a wide range of bids from many people.

These children along with many others were running next to our train soliciting for money.

They are soliciting your input, if you have installed solar.

To that end, he's soliciting donations on his website.

But it also began soliciting votes for a prepackaged bankruptcy in case the exchange offer fell through.

If you raise money, it is because you are out there soliciting it.

America's trial lawyers, seeing a juicy opportunity, are now aggressively soliciting whistleblowers.

The new government is drawing up plans and soliciting advice.

Several in the national security community considered her torrid online questioning to be an unseemly form of soliciting secrets.

Early apparently solicited signatures without disclosing openly who she was and why she was soliciting the signatures.

They must take the initiative, soliciting feedback from their managers and others.

Darpa is soliciting proposals for using seawater to create liquid fuel.

Fund raisers hold a great deal of public trust when they are soliciting donors for money.

He is even soliciting proposals for possible experiments.

QQ has encouraged responses by setting up pavilions on the street and soliciting involvement.

The court also convicted the girl's mother of soliciting the killing.

The rest of you are fortunate to have a more human and natural means of soliciting these letters.

Last year two members of the executive committee were suspended for soliciting bribes from undercover reporters.

But union officials later confirmed that locals were soliciting such support.

Please be aware that some companies are soliciting unauthorized subscription renewals to our customers.

Solar is still kind of expensive as any utilities soliciting bids for renewables will tell you.

So be sure to ask someone what they actually know about schools, before soliciting an opinion.

We all know that the process of soliciting information from students is fraught with many.

We will be highlighting excerpts from these comments as well as soliciting the opinions of thoughtful.

There is also some thought being given to soliciting field reports or blog entries from the grant winner.

But among the downsides to soliciting a famous adviser is that many other junior scholars probably have the same intention.

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Word Origin & History

solicit

early 15c., "to disturb, trouble," from M.Fr. soliciter, from L. solicitare "to disturb, rouse," from sollicitus "agitated," from sollus "whole, entire" + citus "aroused," pp. of ciere "shake, excite, set in motion" (see cite). Meaning "to further (business affairs)" evolved

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mid-15c. from M.Fr. sense of "manage affairs." The sexual sense (often in reference to prostitutes) is attested from 1701, probably from a merger of the business sense and an earlier sense of "to court or beg the favor of" (a woman), attested from 1590s.

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