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   prostitute

   /ˈprɒstɪtjuːt/

   noun

   • 1. a person, in particular a woman, who engages in sexual activity for payment.
   • ▪ a person who misuses their talents or behaves unworthily for personal or financial gain: "careerist political prostitutes"

   verb

   • 1. offer (someone) for sexual activity in exchange for payment: "although she was paid £15 to join a man at his table, she never prostituted herself"
   • ▪ put (oneself or one's talents) to an unworthy or corrupt use for personal or financial gain: "his willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a verb): from Latin prostitut- ‘exposed publicly, offered for sale’, from the verb prostituere, from pro- ‘before’ + statuere ‘set up, place’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. prostitutor noun

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   2 days ago · Ideally, sociodemographic data of the prostitute samples should be collected. This robust data collection effort enables researchers to perform quantitative analyses, predicting which regions in Indonesia are most affected by prostitution and identifying the profiles of women and girls more susceptible to entering the sex industry.

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   1 day ago · A popular Tanzanian novel from the 1990s featured a prostitute beating up an Arab customer who tried to get away without paying her, as if she were a slave. 146 The heritage of slavery here becomes bound up with class-based, ethnic, and racial prejudices derived from multiple frames of reference.

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   3 days ago · Germany's Prostitution Act in 2002 designated prostitution as a normal trade in the country. Since 2017, the Prostitute Protection Act has also stipulated that brothels require an...

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   3 days ago · Harem ( Arabic: حَرِيمٌ, romanized : ḥarīm, lit. 'a sacred inviolable place; female members of the family') [1] [2] refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family.

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   19 hours ago · The officers arrested the prostitute; Mr. Murphy was not arrested or charged, and his spokesman said that he was being a “good Samaritan” by offering a ride.

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   3 days ago · The first woman known to have called herself "geisha" was a prostitute from Fukagawa, roughly around 1750, [24] who had become a skilled singer and shamisen player.

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