prostitute
noun
a person who engages in sexual intercourse or other sex acts for money; sex worker.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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At night he began to have trouble sleeping, to feel he was prostituting his conscience and his editorial responsibilities.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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