If you solicit money, help, support, or an opinion from someone, you ask them for it. He's already solicited their support on health care reform No tuition was charged by the school, which solicited contributions from the society's members
For purposes of soft money rules, solicit means to ask that another person make a contribution, donation, transfer of funds, or otherwise provide anything of value, whether the contribution, donation, transfer of funds, or thing of value, is to be made or provided directly, or through a conduit or intermediary Merely providing information or guidance as to the requirement of a particular law does not constitute a solicitation 11 CFR 300 2(m)
make a solicitation or petition for something desired; "She is too shy to solicit" incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination; "He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents" make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities
{f} try and obtain something through persuasion or earnest requests; attempt to convince someone to give or do something; try to influence another to commit an illegal act; offer sex in exchange for money