solicit
suh li sit
- v make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce
My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities - v make amorous advances towards
- v approach with an offer of sexual favors
he was solicited by a prostitute
The young man was caught soliciting in the park - v incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination
He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents - v make a solicitation or petition for something desired
She is too shy to solicit
- Quickly, but as casually as an afterthought, a young black man, also a shoe shiner, enters and tries to solicit a customer.
- It plans to form a nonprofit corporation that will solicit funds from Negro congregations and other sources to finance housing and small businesses in urban ghettos.
- He was accused not just with conspiring to solicit bribes but with conspiring to solicit bribes from the next President of the United States.