English-French translations for prostitution

• prostitution
  Nous disons non à toutes les formes de prostitution. We say no to all forms of prostitution.
  La plupart d'entre elles sont vendues pour être livrées à la prostitution. Most of them are trafficked for prostitution.
  Nul ne peut nier que la misère est un terreau fertile pour la prostitution. No one can deny that poverty is fertile ground for prostitution.

Definition of prostitution

• Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay
• Debasement for profit or impure motives

Examples

• Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.
• The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.

Related words

• cyberprostitution
• antiprostitution
• prostitutional
• child prostitution
• house of prostitution