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
When prostitutes solicit, they offer to have sex with people in return for money. Prostitutes were forbidden to solicit on public roads and in public places. + soliciting so·lic·it·ing Girls could get very heavy sentences for soliciting -- nine months or more
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
Solicitation is the act of asking someone for money, help, support, or an opinion. Republican leaders are making open solicitation of the Italian-American vote. the act of asking someone for money, help, or information. In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual relations in exchange for money
the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children"
An Invitation for Bid, Request for Proposal, a Request for Quotation, Request for Information or any other invitation or request by which the College invites a contractor to participate in a procurement process
{i} earnest request, entreaty; request for a monetary donation; attempt to influence another to commit an illegal act; offering of sex in exchange for money