as in vice
the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money
prostitution is illegal in most states
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Recent Examples of prostitution
Combs was convicted under the Mann Act, which bans transporting people across state lines for prostitution.
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Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Earlier this week Subramanian rejected Combs’ lawyers’ motion to dismiss his convictions on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution and remains in custody pending sentencing.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Combs was in court on Friday to be sentenced for his July convictions on prostitution charges.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
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Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Earlier this week Subramanian rejected Combs’ lawyers’ motion to dismiss his convictions on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution and remains in custody pending sentencing.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Combs was in court on Friday to be sentenced for his July convictions on prostitution charges.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prostitution
harlotry
Noun
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Within the slippery world of harlotry—where class can be transcended and humanity bought—relationships form that defy our historical assumptions about the bounded categories of human experience.—
Sarah Marshall,
New Republic,
2 June 2017
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That's how my job eventually descended into harlotry: through the endless cat-and-mouse game of porntrepreneurs subverting Google's anti-smut policies.—
Lucas Peterson,
GQ,
22 May 2017
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“Prostitution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prostitution. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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