prostitution
    n 1: offering sexual intercourse for pay [syn: prostitution,
         harlotry, whoredom]

Prostitution \Pros`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. prostitutio: cf. F.
   prostitution.]
   1. The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body
      to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness
      of a woman.
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   2. The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to
      infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the
      prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.
      "Mental prostitution." --Byron.
      [1913 Webster]

PROSTITUTION. The common lewdness of a woman for gain. 
     2. In all well regulated communities this has been considered a heinous 
offence, for which the woman may be punished, and the keeper of a house of 
prostitution may be indicted for keeping a common nuisance. 
     3. So much does the law abhor this offence, that a landlord cannot 
recover for the use and occupation of a house let for the purpose of 
prostitution. 1 Esp. Cas. 13; 1 Bos. & Pull. 340, n. 
     4. In a figurative sense, it signifies the bad use which a corrupt 
judge makes of the law, by making it subservient to his interest; as, the 
prostitution of the law, the prostitution of justice.