Usually means: Exchanging sexual acts for money.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word prostituting:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. prostituting: Merriam-Webster
  2. prostituting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prostituting: Vocabulary.com
  4. prostituting: Wordnik
  5. prostituting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prostituting: Wiktionary
  7. Prostituting, prostituting: Dictionary.com
  8. prostituting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Prostituting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Prostituting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. prostituting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. prostituting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. prostituting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Prostituting: Wordnik

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prostituting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prostituting: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prostituting: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prostitute as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prostitute)

verb:  (transitive, reflexive) To offer (oneself or someone else) for sexual activity in exchange for money.
verb:  (transitive, derogatory) To sacrifice (oneself, one's talents etc.) in return for profit or other advantage; to exploit for base purposes.
adjective:  (obsolete) Debased, corrupt; seeking personal gain by dishonourable means.
adjective:  Taking part in promiscuous sexual activity, licentious; (later, chiefly as attributive use of noun) that is a prostitute.
adjective:  (obsolete) Exposed, subjected (to something shameful).
noun:  Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
noun:  A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
noun:  A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage.
▸ Also see prostitute





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