3syllables
prostitute
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Definitions ofprostitute
1noun
- Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
Synonyms: "sex worker"
- A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage.
Synonyms: sellout
1verb
- To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money.
- To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.
1adjective
- Debased, corrupt; seeking personal gain by dishonourable means.
- Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute.
- Exposed, subjected (to something shameful).
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