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What does prostitution mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word prostitution? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.
  2. (by extension) Debasement for profit or impure motives.
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Crimes leading to imprisonment included prostitution, drug use, larceny, robbery, parole violation, and extortion.
Most of the prostitutes working the streets have a drug problem, and fund their habit by prostitution.
Even if we had a state-sponsored knocking shop in every town and village, there would still be prostitution elsewhere.
In other words, can they engage in legal economic activity in a jurisdiction where prostitution is legal?
Officials generally tolerated prostitution in mining centres, especially in more remote locations.
Despite the apparent convergence with Western juvenile prostitution, clear differences remain that should not be ignored.

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