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Answer for the clue "Offering sexual intercourse for pay ", 12 letters:
prostitution

Word definitions for prostitution in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French prostitution and directly from Late Latin prostitutionem (nominative prostitutio ), noun of action from past participle stem of prostituere (see prostitute ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. offering sexual intercourse for pay [syn: harlotry , whoredom ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN child ▪ Ministers have recently addressed the issues of child prostitution and trafficking. ▪ They focused popular discontent over the double-standard and the complicity of aristocratic men in child prostitution . ▪ ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prostitution \Pros`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. prostitutio: cf. F. prostitution.] The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman. The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Prostitution (French: La prostitution ) is a 1963 French drama film directed by Maurice Boutel and starring Etchika Choureau , Evelyne Dassas and Alain Lionel .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. engage in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods.

Usage examples of prostitution.

Indeed this resemblance would be exact, was it not that the bawd hath an interest in what she doth, and the father, though perhaps he may blindly think otherwise, can, in reality, have none in urging his daughter to almost an equal prostitution.

Southeast Asia, Cassidy found a way to boost morale: he created a photomontage of pictures taken by crewmembers in the various houses of prostitution they had visited while on their many NSA Sigint voyages.

White, while surveilling Cassese inside a cocktail lounge, overheard him attempting to suborn a minor female into prostitution.

The profession of begging was banned, but prostitution of course throve, and there were many acts of petty brutality, for Shanghai was an occupied city, and soldiers are men at their most beastly.

As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

Homosexuality and transvestism were prohibited by law at that time, if linked with prostitution, and the brothel-keeper kept a few real girls at the bar to keep up appearances.

For Kraus, prostitution is a natural and unpreventable practice, and attempts to impose legal control are inherently hypocritical.

When we happened to find those places already tenanted by other men, we forced them by violence to quit the premises, and defrauded the miserable victims of prostitution of the mean salary the law allows them, after compelling them to yield to our brutality.

Earth science learns to combat venereal disease and reduce conception, as London grows, becomes more prosperous and restricts entry to prostitution, such infusion will decrease.

There were entire sections devoted to insanity and cretinism, social and criminal pathology, suicide, pauperism and philanthropy, prison reform, prostitution and morphinism, capital punishment, abnormal psychology, legal codes, the argot of the underworld and code writing, toxicology, and police methods.

Rozanov fantasized of a patriarchal, but tolerant world in which homosexuals would be recognised as a sort of creative monastic community, in which prostitution would be reorganised into an idyllic, almost religious evening ritual and in which the onanist would find a way out of his isolation and melancholy.

Indeed, the situation of poets is generally such, to a proverb, as may, in some measure, palliate that prostitution of heart and talents, they have at times been guilty of.

In other words, the servant girl, being treated as a drudge, never having the right to herself, and worn out by the caprices of her mistress, can find an outlet, like the factory or shopgirl, only in prostitution.

I suppose that many a girl turns to prostitution because of such intolerance.

Baptist zeal, Methodist self-satisfaction, Presbyterian Scots certainty about everything, Anglican social superiority, and a horde of evangelists and back-street messiahs to suit every taste, as well as an undertow of prohibitionists, anti-tobacco crusaders, and warriors against prostitution, who were linked with the churches though not actually a part of them, seemed to dominate the mores of the city.