SOLICITATION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SOLICITATION?

Need another word that means the same as “solicitation”? Find 4 synonyms and 30 related words for “solicitation” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Solicitation” are: appeal, collection, ingathering, allurement

Solicitation as a Noun

Definitions of "Solicitation" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “solicitation” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An entreaty addressed to someone of superior status.
• The act of asking for or trying to obtain something from someone.
• The act of accosting someone and offering one's or someone else's services as a prostitute.
• Request for a sum of money.
• The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money.

Synonyms of "Solicitation" as a noun (4 Words)

allurement	Attractiveness. Its allurement was its remoteness.
appeal	Request for a sum of money. His mother made an appeal for the return of the ring.
collection	A sum of money raised during a church or charity collection. A collection of essays.
ingathering	Request for a sum of money.

Usage Examples of "Solicitation" as a noun

• He was a regular target for solicitation of funds.
• A solicitation to the king for relief.
• A woman arrested for solicitation.
• People objected to receiving telephone solicitations.

Associations of "Solicitation" (30 Words)

appeal	Take a court case to a higher court for review. A look of appeal on his face.
asking	The verbal act of requesting.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. He begged his fellow passengers for help.
beseech	Ask for or request earnestly. They beseeched him to stay.
cadge	Ask for and get free; be a parasite. He cadged fivers off old school friends.
conjure	Implore (someone) to do something. Anne conjured up a delicious home made hotpot.
crave	Feel a powerful desire for (something. If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved.
desperately	In a way that shows despair. The soil desperately needed potash.
entreat	Ask for or request earnestly. His friends entreated him not to go.
entreaty	An earnest or humble request. An entreaty to stop the fighting.
exhortation	An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something. Exhortations to consumers to switch off electrical appliances.
implore	Beg earnestly for. I implore mercy.
invitation	A written or verbal request inviting someone to go somewhere or to do something. A herb garden where guests can only go at the invitation of the chef.
invite	Invite someone to one s house. Applications are invited for the post of Director.
invocation	An incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural. His invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish.
necessary	Absolutely essential. The necessary consequences of one s actions.
perforce	Used to express necessity or inevitability. Amateurs perforce have to settle for less expensive solutions.
petition	Reverent petition to a deity. The organization is petitioning the EU for a moratorium on the patent.
plea	A formal statement by or on behalf of a defendant or prisoner, stating guilt or innocence in response to a charge, offering an allegation of fact, or claiming that a point of law should apply. He changed his plea to not guilty.
plead	Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. The youth pleaded guilty to murdering the girl.
please	It is someone’s choice to do something. Would you like a drink Yes please.
pray	Address a prayer to God or another deity. And what pray was the purpose of that.
prayer	Earnest or urgent request. The priest sank to his knees in prayer.
request	A tune or song played on a radio programme typically accompanied by a personal message in response to a listener s request. The chairman requested that the reports be considered.
solicit	Make a solicitation or entreaty for something request urgently or persistently. Historians and critics are solicited for opinions by the auction houses.
suppliant	Humbly entreating. A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness.
supplicant	A person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power or authority. We are equals and not supplicants begging for work.
supplicate	Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly. Supplicate God s blessing.
supplication	A humble request for help from someone in authority. He fell to his knees in supplication.
woo	Seek someone’s favor. China is wooing Russia.