solicitations
Pleas for donations
Solicitations are requests or appeals, often for money, business, or support.
The word carries a formal or commercial tone: The nonprofit sent out solicitations to previous donors.
In legal contexts, solicitation refers to the crime of encouraging someone to commit an offense, or to seeking clients for prostitution: He was arrested for solicitation.
Requests for information
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- entreatiesEarnest, humble requests
- pleasEarnest requests or supplications
- appealsRequests for reconsideration
overtures · approaches · invitations · correspondence · queries · applications · submissions · proposals
Paid promotional communication
- marketingPromoting goods to consumers
- pitchesThrows or proposals
- cold callsUnsolicited sales contacts
- telemarketingPhone-based sales outreach
spam · promotions · sales · mailers · flyers · offers · door-to-door · canvassing
Price offers made
- proposalsFormal offers or plans
- tendersFormally presents or offers
- contractsEnforceable written agreements
- procurementObtaining goods externally
RFPs · quotes · submissions · vendors · competitive · government · contractors · applications
Gifts to organizations
- contributionsThings given to help
- pledgesFormal promises given
- appealsRequests for reconsideration
- campaignsOrganized efforts toward goals
charity · nonprofits · grants · giving · benefactors · sponsors · endowments · philanthropy
Commercial sexual services
- streetwalkingStreet-based prostitution
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- loiteringPurposeless public lingering
- viceBad habit or deputy
trafficking · exploitation · criminalizing · decriminalization · johns · pimping · red-light · escort
inquiries
Requests for information
- petitionsFormal requests for action
- entreatiesEarnest, humble requests
- pleasEarnest requests or supplications
appeals · overtures · approaches · invitations · correspondence · queries · applications · submissions · proposals · letters
advertising
Paid promotional communication
- marketingPromoting goods to consumers
- pitchesThrows or proposals
- cold callsUnsolicited sales contacts
telemarketing · spam · promotions · sales · mailers · flyers · offers · door-to-door · canvassing · leaflets
bids
Price offers made
- proposalsFormal offers or plans
- tendersFormally presents or offers
- contractsEnforceable written agreements
procurement · RFPs · quotes · submissions · vendors · competitive · government · contractors · applications · sealed
donations
Gifts to organizations
- contributionsThings given to help
- pledgesFormal promises given
- appealsRequests for reconsideration
campaigns · charity · nonprofits · grants · giving · benefactors · sponsors · endowments · philanthropy · drives
prostitution
Commercial sexual services
- streetwalkingStreet-based prostitution
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- loiteringPurposeless public lingering
vice · trafficking · exploitation · criminalizing · decriminalization · johns · pimping · red-light · escort · brothel
- spamspam, junk mail, spam filter, spam folder, bulk mail
- procurementprocurement, purchasing, purchase order, bidding, subcontract
- mailletter, letters, mail, email, envelope
- commandsgo, stop, wait, come, run
- digital annoyancesspam, pop-ups, ads, malware, viruses
- pleasplea, pleas, please, prayers, entreaty
solicitationsunsolicited offers
Proposals given without request
offers · provisions · grants · donations · gifts
solicitationsrefusals
Acts of declining
rejections · rebuffs · declinations · denials · dismissals