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solicitations

solicitations is the plural of solicitation.

Meaning of solicitation

Noun

solicitation (countable and uncountable, plural solicitations)

  1. the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal
    • "The instances you have quoted," replied the other, "are certainly very encouraging! Homer past a life in blindness and beggary; Columbus, in vain solicitation and feverish disappointment; and Luther's was spent in struggle, imprisonment, and danger...1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Secretaryship”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 127
    Synonyms:
    petition, appeal
  2. (US) an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime

Questions about solicitations

What is solicitations the plural of?
Solicitations is the plural of solicitation.

Words near solicitations in the dictionary

  1. solicitate
  2. solicitated
  3. solicitates
  4. solicitating
  5. solicitation
  6. solicitations
  7. solicited
  8. solicitee
  9. solicitees
  10. soliciter
  11. soliciters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: solicitations (page history and authors); solicitation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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