solicit

Definitions


[səˈlɪsɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone
(e.g: he called a meeting to solicit their views)

- accost someone and offer one's or someone else's services as a prostitute
(e.g: he met her while she was soliciting in Soho)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French solliciter, from Latin sollicitare ‘agitate’, from sollicitus ‘anxious’, from sollus ‘entire’ + citus (past participle of ciere ‘set in motion’)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries