prostitute

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who solicits and accepts payment for sex acts.
2. n. One who sells one's abilities, talent, or name for an unworthy purpose.
3. v. To offer (oneself or another) for sexual hire.
4. v. To sell (oneself or one's talent, for example) for an unworthy purpose.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To offer to a lewd use, or to indiscriminate lewdness, for hire.
2. To surrender to any vile or infamous purpose; devote to anything base; sell or hire to the service of wickedness.
3. Openly devoted to lewdness for gain.
4. Sold for base or infamous purposes; infamous; mercenary; base.
5. n. A woman given to indiscriminate lewdness for gain; a strumpet; a harlot. In criminal law it has been held that the element of gain is not essential or may be presumed.
6. n. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who engages in infamous employments for hire.

Wiktionary

1. n. A woman, or other person, who performs sexual activity for payment.
2. n. A woman, or other person, who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
3. n. A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.
4. v. transitive, usually reflexively To perform sexual activity for money
5. v. transitive To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
6. v. transitive To use one's talents in return for money or fame
7. v. figuratively To exploit for base purposes; to whore.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
2. v. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use
3. adj. Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
4. n. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
5. n. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. sell one's body; exchange sex for money
2. n. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money