Noun

(-)

Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods.

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The FBI typically does not investigate adult prostitution', leaving it as a state and local matter, but in recent years it has made child ' prostitution a priority in a program the FBI calls Operation Cross Country. The program includes highway billboards asking people to call the FBI with tips.

Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.

(by extension) Debasement for unworthy profit or motives.

The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.

Noun

(polygamies)

The having of multiple socially bonded sexual partners at the same time

''Originally polygamy could work either or both ways, but civilisation generally forbids simultaneous husbands

The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time.

* 1991 , Kathryn M Daynes, Plural wives and the nineteenth-century Mormon marriage system , page 16

Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America

* 2008 , Zeitzen, Miriam Koktvedgaard Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis , p 3

Muslims and early Mormon communities have been known to practise polygamy .

(zoology) The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.

An insect queen actually practices polygamy''' only one day, while for an alpha-male defending his harem is the very essence of both his status and ' polygamy

(botany) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.

Commonly used specifically for polygyny, the marriage of a man to more than one wife, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time.

''The Islamic form of polygamy is a husband with up to four wives