prostitute

prostitute
    n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
         {prostitute}, {cocotte}, {whore}, {harlot}, {bawd}, {tart},
         {cyprian}, {fancy woman}, {working girl}, {sporting lady},
         {lady of pleasure}, {woman of the street}]
    v 1: sell one's body; exchange sex for money
    

Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostituted}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Prostituting}.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of
   prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to
   put, place. See {Statute}.]
   1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to
      lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter."
      --Lev. xix. 29.
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   2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low
      or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to
      prostitute official powers. --Milton.
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Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, a. [L. prostitutus, p. p.]
   Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous
   purposes.
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         Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread. --Prior
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Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, n. [L. prostituta.]
   1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a
      harlot.
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   2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to
      infamous employments for hire.
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            No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. --Pope.
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108 Moby Thesaurus words for "prostitute":
      B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, abuse, adulterate, alloy, bawd, befoul,
      bimbo, brass, call girl, canker, catamite, cheapen, chippy,
      coarsen, cocotte, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt,
      courtesan, cruiser, daughter of joy, debase, debauch, defalcate,
      defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demean, denature, deprave,
      desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, divert, drab, embezzle,
      erring sister, fallen, fallen woman, fille de joie, foul, harlot,
      hetaera, hooker, hustler, hustling, infect, loose woman, lower,
      maladminister, meretricious, meretrix, misapply, misappropriate,
      misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, moll, nightwalker, on the,
      on the town, painted woman, pander, pave, peculate, pervert,
      pickup, pilfer, pimp, poison, pollute, poule, pro, procure,
      profane, prostituted, quean, ravage, ravish, scarlet,
      scarlet woman, sell out, stew, streetwalker, streetwalking,
      strumpet, taint, tart, tomato, trollop, trull, twist, ulcerate,
      unfortunate woman, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, white slave,
      whore, whorish, working girl