# (old-fashioned or humorous) to live together and have a sexual relationship without being married.

• Last I heard, they'd moved in together and were living in sin.

# the quality of being attractive and exciting

• sexual allure

# (especially North American English) the act of asking somebody for something, such as support, money or information; the act of trying to get something or persuading somebody to do something.

• the solicitation of money for election funds

# the act of offering to have sex with people in return for money.

# [transitive, intransitive] (formal) to ask somebody for something, such as support, money or information; to try to get something or persuade somebody to do something.

• solicit something (from somebody): They were planning to solicit funds from a number of organizations.

• They send representatives abroad to solicit business.

• solicit somebody (for something): Historians and critics are solicited for their opinions.

• solicit (for something): to solicit for money

• solicit somebody to do something: Volunteers are being solicited to assist with the project.

# [intransitive, transitive] solicit (somebody): to offer to have sex with people in return for money.

• Prostitutes solicited openly in the streets.

• the crime of soliciting.

# allowing or showing a freedom of behaviour that many people do not approve of, especially in sexual matters.

• permissive attitudes

• permissive parents (= who allow their children a lot of freedom)

# the permissive society /ðə pəˌmɪsɪv səˈsaɪəti/ (n): [singular] (often disapproving) ​the changes towards greater freedom in attitudes and behaviour that happened in many countries in the 1960s and 1970s, especially the greater freedom in sexual matters.

# the fact of allowing or showing a freedom of behaviour that many people do not approve of, especially in sexual matters.

• the growth of permissiveness

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