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solicitation

UK/səˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/US/səˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,840 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: solicitations

Solicitation is a formal request for money or for business. Charitable solicitation, unsolicited approaches, a solicitation letter.

In fundraising it is the technical term for the ask, and it is regulated: many places require a licence before anybody may go door to door. In American law it also names the crime of asking somebody to commit an offence, which is a quite separate sense.

Definitions of solicitation

  1. 1nounsolicitationA formal request for money or for business.C1

    “The charity's solicitation letters asked supporters for monthly donations.”

solicitation is a request.

Where it comes from

Latin sollicitatio comes from sollicitare, to disturb or urge, from sollicitus, agitated.

  1. Latin

    sollicitātiō

  2. Middle French

    sollicitation

  3. English, today

    solicitation

From Middle French sollicitation, from Latin sollicitātiō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

solicitation in the wild

  • Non-marital, adult, consensual paid cybersex counts as illegal solicitation of prostitution and illegal prostitution in multiple US states.

    Cybersex

  • The three main kinds are attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy.

    Inchoate offense

  • In United States government contracting, a provision or solicitation provision is a written term or condition used in a solicitation.

    Provision (contracting)

  • A solicitation provision applies only before a contract is awarded to a vendor.

    Provision (contracting)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.