Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - solicit

(solicits, soliciting, solicited) 1. If you solicit money, help, support, or an opinion from someone, you ask them for it. (FORMAL) He’s already solicited their support on health care reform... No tuition was charged by the school, which solicited contributions from the society’s members. VERB: V n, V n from n 2. When prostitutes solicit, they offer to have sex with people in return for money. Prostitutes were forbidden to solicit on public roads and in public places. VERB: V • soliciting Girls could get very heavy sentences for soliciting–nine months or more. N-UNCOUNT