solicitation
Example Sentences
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The county set up a hotline for tips from the public, and moved to ban “predatory solicitation” outside county social services offices.
From Los Angeles Times
After the August posting of the search, the museum reportedly received about 17 resumes, “mostly unqualified,” the letter said, before direct solicitations to professional associates in the field eventually surfaced two potential names.
From Los Angeles Times
“There must be greater accountability both to protect survivors seeking justice and to ensure that fraudulent claims and predatory solicitation are stopped at their source.”
From Los Angeles Times
All this for a mere solicitation to buy a Medicare Advantage plan from a big insurer.
From MarketWatch
The Supreme Court has defined commercial speech as communication of the “terms of an actual or potential transaction” that has an “economic motivation”—for example, credit-card solicitations.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
