The action or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment; prostitution. Obsolete.

The action of prostituting or condition of being prostituted; the practice or occupation of engaging… Of a woman or girl.

The activity or profession of a trug (trug, n.2); prostitution. Only in †trugging place, trugging house: a brothel.

slang. With the. In various spec. senses. Prostitution. Cf. trader, n. 2. Also occasionally without the.

Prostitution, harlotry.

In specific uses, chiefly with the. The street as the locale of prostitution. Chiefly in to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s) at phrases 4b.

prostitution.

U.S. slang. the life. Frequently in in the life. Prostitution; cf. game, n. 4b.

euphemistic and humorous. = prostitution, n. 1. Frequently in oldest profession n. at oldest, adj. compounds.

any problem or issue that adversely affects society; spec. (frequently with the) prostitution (now archaic).

Prostitution, soliciting as a prostitute.

slang. With the. Prostitution. Earliest in lady (also girl,etc.) of the game. In later use chiefly in on the game: see phrases 6b.

the sex industry, spec. the business of prostitution.