prostitute
noun
a person who engages in sexual intercourse or other sex acts for money; sex worker.
prostitutes
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pluralof prostitute.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof prostitute (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Botero early in his career seized on sharp visual contrasts: Tiny snakes, parrots, flies and bananas adorn his portraits of blimpy bullfighters, bishops, prostitutes, acrobats, ballroom dancers and politicians.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his magic-realist imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, has died.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
As Sister Hermann Marie, Sukowa brings to bear the weight of past roles when lecturing on grief and magical thinking: philosopher Hannah Arendt, mystic Hildegard von Bingen, prostitutes and militants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
His best-known work remains “Lonesome Dove,” an epic novel about cowboys and cattle drives, grizzled Texas Rangers, frontier prostitutes, dexterous gamblers, odoriferous buffalo hunters and other roisterous denizens of the American West.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2021
As far as I can tell, the place isn’t a nest of drug dealers and prostitutes; these are just working people who don’t have the capital to rent a normal apartment.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
