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solicitation

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solicitation

In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual relations in exchange for money.
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If the people wish me to work for them, they must hire me without solicitation.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
They played a duet from "Zampa," and at the earnest solicitation of every one present followed it with the overture to "The Poet and the Peasant.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
This solicitation dropped, alas, as it came: if I could immediately have succumbed to it I might have spared myself--well, you'll see what.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
 
 
 
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