prostitution

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• Hyphenation: pros‧ti‧tu‧tion

Noun

prostitution (uncountable)

1. Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods.

   Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.

2. (by extension) Debasement for unworthy profit or motives.

   The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.

Synonyms

• oldest profession, world's oldest profession

Related terms

• prostitute
• child prostitution

Translations

having sex for profit

• Albanian: prostitucion (sq) m
• Arabic: دعارة (ar) (daʿāra) f, فَحْشاء (ar) (faḥšāʾ)
• Azeri: fahişəlik (az)
• Basque: prostituzio (eu)
• Belarusian: прастытуцыя (be) (prastytúcyja) f
• Bulgarian: проституция (bg) (prostitúcija) f
• Catalan: prostitució (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賣淫 (cmn), 卖淫 (cmn) (màiyín), 賣春 (cmn), 卖春 (cmn) (màichūn) (euphemism)

• Czech: prostituce (cs) f
• Danish: prostitution (da) c
• Dutch: prostitutie (nl) f
• Esperanto: prostituo (eo)
• Ewe: ahasiwɔwɔ
• Faroese: skøkjulevnaður (fo) m
• Finnish: prostituutio (fi)
• French: prostitution (fr) f
• Galician: prostitución (gl) f
• German: Prostitution (de) f
• Greek: πορνεία (el) (pornia) f
• Hindi: वेश्यावृत्ति (hi) (veśyāvŕtti) f
• Hungarian: prostitúció (hu)

• Italian: prostituzione (it) f
• Japanese: 淫売 (ja) (いんばい, inbai), 売春 (ja) (ばいしゅん, baishun), 買春 (ja) (ばいしゅん, baishun, かいしゅん, kaishun), 切り売り主義 (ja) (きりうりしゅぎ, kiriurishugi)
• Korean: 성매매 (ko) (seongmaemae), 매춘 (ko) (maechun)
• Macedonian: проституција (mk) (prostitúcija) f, курварлак (mk) (kúrvarlak) m
• Malayalam: വേശ്യ (ml)
• Maori: kairautanga (mi)
• Persian: روسپی‌گری (fa) (ruspi-gari), تن‌فروشی (fa) (tan-foruši)
• Polish: prostytucja (pl) f
• Portuguese: prostituição (pt) f
• Russian: проституция (ru) (prostitúcija) f
• Scottish Gaelic: strìopachas m, siùrsachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: проституција (sh) f

  Roman: prostitucija (sh) f

• Slovak: prostitúcia (sk) f
• Slovene: prostitúcija (sl) f
• Spanish: prostitución (es) f
• Swahili: umalaya (sw) (nc 14), ukahaba (sw)
• Telugu: వ్యభిచారం (vyabhichaaram)
• Thai: การค้าประเวณี (th) (gaan káa bpràwaynee)
• Turkish: fahişelik (tr)
• Ukrainian: проституція (uk) (prostytúcija) f
• Vietnamese: sự mại dâm (vi)

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Noun

prostitution f (plural prostitutions)

1. prostitution

Related terms

• prostituée
• prostituer