solicit
Ask for earnestly
To solicit is to ask for something, usually in a formal or persistent way.
You solicit donations, opinions, votes, or business.
Lawyers who solicit clients are actively seeking them out.
In legal contexts, to solicit often means to offer sexual services for money, or to encourage someone to commit a crime: soliciting prostitution, soliciting murder.
Entryway or influence-seeking
- convinceCause to believe
- swayRock back and forth
- influencePower to affect others
- canvassSeek opinions systematically
campaign · advocate · petition · appeal · urge · press · push · promote
Formal act of seeking
petition · appeal · invite · summon · call · demand · requisition · query
Give to charity
- contributionSomething given to help
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- pledgeBinding promise given
- charityVoluntary aid for others
canvass · appeal · sponsor · patron · benefactor · philanthropy · tithe · alms
lobby
Entryway or influence-seeking
canvass · campaign · advocate · petition · appeal · urge · press · push · promote · endorse
request
Formal act of seeking
apply · petition · appeal · invite · summon · call · demand · requisition · query · approach
donate
Give to charity
- contributionSomething given to help
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- pledgeBinding promise given
charity · canvass · appeal · sponsor · patron · benefactor · philanthropy · tithe · alms · crowdfunding
prostitute
One who sells sex
- streetwalkerOne who solicits outdoors
- hookerSex worker, informally
- escortOne who accompanies another
john · trick · pimp · madam · brothel · bordello · red-light · hustler · procure · pander
pitch
Frequency of sound
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- leadDense metal, symbol Pb
- outreachProactive community assistance
commission · convert · upsell · network · clientele · customer · vendor · hustle · tout · hawk
- philanthropydonations, charity work, donate, give, giving
- investigatinginvestigate, examine, inspect, probe, search
- persuasionpersuade, persuasion, persuasive, convince, convincing
- no solicitingSign refusing salespeople
- solicitor generalGovernment's chief appellate lawyer
solicitous, solicitor, unsolicited, solicitation, solicitude, solicited, soliciting, solicitors, solicits