solicitation | | |
n. (communication) | 1. solicitation | an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status.; "a solicitation to the king for relief" |
| ~ appeal, entreaty, prayer | earnest or urgent request.; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" |
| ~ beggary, begging, mendicancy | a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person). |
| ~ touch | the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan).; "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch" |
| ~ importunity, urging, urgency | insistent solicitation and entreaty.; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" |
n. (communication) | 2. appeal, collection, ingathering, solicitation | request for a sum of money.; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" |
| ~ petition, request, postulation | a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority. |
| ~ whip-round | (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose. |
n. (act) | 3. allurement, solicitation | the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money). |
| ~ enticement, temptation | the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.; "his enticements were shameless" |
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