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solicitation
noun
1 solicitation
An entreaty addressed to someone of superior status.
Polish: solicytacja
2 solicitation
Request for a sum of money.
synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering.
Roget 765:
request,
requisition;
claim
etc.
(demand)
741;
petition,
suit,
prayer;
begging letter,
round robin.
motion,
overture,
application,
canvass,
address,
appeal,
apostrophe;
imprecation;
rogation;
proposal,
proposition.
orison
etc.
(worship)
990;
incantation
etc.
(spell)
993.
mendicancy;
asking,
begging
etc.
v.;
postulation,
solicitation,
invitation,
entreaty,
importunity,
supplication,
instance,
impetration†,
imploration†,
obsecration†,
obtestation†,
invocation,
interpellation.
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Dutch: inzameling
Polish: apel
3 solicitation
The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money).
synonym: allurement.
Roget 615:
motive,
springs of action,
wellsprings of action.
reason,
ground,
call,
principle;
by end,
by purpose;
mainspring,
primum mobile [Lat.],
keystone;
the why and the wherefore;
pro and con,
reason why;
secret motive,
arriere pensee [Fr.];
intention
etc.
620.
inducement,
consideration;
attraction;
loadstone;
magnet,
magnetism,
magnetic force;
allectation†,
allective†;
temptation,
enticement,
agacerie†,
allurement,
witchery;
bewitchment,
bewitchery;
charm;
spell
etc.
993;
fascination,
blandishment,
cajolery;
seduction,
seducement;
honeyed words,
voice of the tempter,
song of the Sirens forbidden fruit,
golden apple.
persuasibility†,
persuasibleness†;
attractability†;
impressibility,
susceptibility;
softness;
persuasiveness,
attractiveness;
tantalization†.
influence,
prompting,
dictate,
instance;
impulse,
impulsion;
incitement,
incitation;
press,
instigation;
provocation
etc.
(excitation of feeling)
824;
inspiration;
persuasion,
suasion;
encouragement,
advocacy;
exhortation;
advice
etc.
695;
solicitation
etc.
(request)
765;
lobbyism;
pull [Slang].
incentive,
stimulus,
spur,
fillip,
whip,
goad,
ankus†,
rowel,
provocative,
whet,
dram.
bribe,
lure;
decoy,
decoy duck;
bait,
trail of a red herring;
bribery and corruption;
sop,
sop for Cerberus.
prompter,
tempter;
seducer,
seductor†;
instigator,
firebrand,
incendiary;
Siren,
Circe;
agent provocateur;
lobbyist.
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Moby thesaurus: addresses, all-out campaign, allurement, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, campaign, campaign button, campaign commitments, campaign contribution, campaign fund, canvass, coaxing, conning, courting, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, grass-roots campaign, hard-hitting campaign, harlotry, hortation, hurrah campaign, inducement, jawboning, lobbying, media campaign, pandering, persuasion, pimping, preaching, preachment, prostitution, sales talk, salesmanship, selling, snow job, soft soap, soliciting, streetwalking, stump excursion, stumping tour, suasion, suit, sweet talk, wheedling, whistle-stop campaign, whoredom, whoremastery, whoremonging, wooing, working on ... show more.
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