soliciting

[ suh-lis-i-ting ]

noun

1. the act of requesting something, especially money:

   Deceptive advertising, soliciting, and recruitment are prohibited on campus.

2. the act of offering to exchange money for sex:

   One man, arrested twice for online soliciting, was rearrested while on a work release program.

Word History and Origins

Origin of soliciting¹

solicit ( def ) + -ing ¹( def )

Example Sentences

Ferebee and Bowser have been charged with not soliciting enough public feedback about their reopening plans, and Silverman hopes this would better involve the public in the process.

From Washington Post

She previously participated in two Council discussions over the terms of the contract, after Berkshire Hathaway expressed interest in bidding on the deal, but before the city officially solicited for responses.

From Voice of San Diego

Opinions are frequently solicited through anonymous as well as public channels.

From Outside Online

While lawmakers themselves are restricted from soliciting unlimited donations to the super PACs they’re tied to, the people running these groups can do so on their behalf.

From ProPublica

Equally important, the service solicits reviews on behalf of a hotel via email, mobile apps and text messaging.

From Search Engine Land

He is also soliciting funds for university fellowships in agronomy and engineering.

From The Daily Beast

Christian conservative Sen. Larry Craig plead guilty for soliciting sex in the Minneapolis airport bathroom in 2007.

From The Daily Beast

On Twitter and in Facebook pages ISIS was making appeals as well as threats, attracting recruits and soliciting funding online.

From The Daily Beast

In soliciting funds for care packages, Move America Forward frequently uses testimonials from troops or their relatives.

From The Daily Beast

There are adolescent boys all over America soliciting naughty pics from adolescent girls, he says.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. Abadia and his friends were then under the necessity of soliciting the assistance of Captain Trevithick.

From Project Gutenberg

And so staid without a good while, and saw my Lady Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the Lords on her behalf.

From Project Gutenberg

She had only added to his befuddlement and he bent forward, soliciting some more lucid statement of her position.

From Project Gutenberg

He had to go; and occupy himself complaining, soliciting Aulic-Councils and the like, for therest of his life.

From Project Gutenberg

She turned her back upon the glory of the world, neither dreading its frowns nor soliciting its patronage.

From Project Gutenberg