1. : to work as a prostitute : to offer yourself for sex in exchange for money. She prostituted herself for drug money. 2. : to do something that is below your level of skill or ability in order to make money. a writer who prostituted himself by writing commercials.

noun [ C ] uk / hɔː r/ us / hɔːr / Add to word list old-fashioned a female prostitute offensive an offensive word for a woman who is thought to have a lot of sexual partners SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity evil no good idiom

: a person who has sex with someone in exchange for money : prostitute … the jewel-eyed harlots of his imagination … James Joyce … the early-eighteenth-century world, where wigs don't stay on straight, clubmen fall over themselves in drunken stupors, and harlots make their way … Sanford Schwartz