prosti- tutionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin prostitutio. Equivalent to prostitute +‎ -ion.

発音

• IPA: /ˌprɒstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃn/, /prɒstɪˈtjuːʃn/
• ハイフネーション: pros‧ti‧tu‧tion

名詞

prostitution (usually uncountable, plural prostitutions)

1. Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.

   His addiction brought him to the point that prostitution was the only means he had to survive.

   • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter II, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 21:

     Sir Howard by his arts stole from them this their only treasure, and to conceal from them the baseness of his despicable seduction, removed to a distance the deluded couple,—loaded them with his favours,—the wages of their child's prostitution.

   • 2013 July 29, David Ingram (reporting for Reuters), Howard Goller, Bill Trott (editing for Reuters), “FBI arrests 150 in three days in sex-trafficking sweep”, in news.yahoo.com‎, retrieved 29 July 2013:

     The FBI typically does not investigate adult prostitution, leaving it as a state and local matter, but in recent years it has made child prostitution a priority in a program the FBI calls Operation Cross Country. The program includes highway billboards asking people to call the FBI with tips.

2. (by extension) Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.
3. (by extension) Debasement for profit or impure motives.

   The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.

使用する際の注意点

• The legal definition of prostitution varies, with some jurisdictions defining it as any exchange of sex for any goods or services of real or perceived value, while others limit it to transactions involving actual monetary payment.

同意語

上位語

• sex work

関連する語

• prostitute
• child prostitution
• prostitute's pupil