Usually means: Request for something from someone.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word solicit:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. solicit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. solicit: Merriam-Webster
  3. solicit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. solicit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. solicit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. solicit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Solicit, solicit, solicit: Wordnik
  8. solicit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. solicit: Wiktionary
  10. solicit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. solicit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. solicit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. solicit: Dictionary.com
  14. solicit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. solicit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Solicit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Solicit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. solicit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. solicit: Rhymezone
  20. solicit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. solicit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. solicit: FreeDictionary.org
  23. solicit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. solicit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. solicit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. solicit: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. solicit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solicit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. solicit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solicit: Idioms

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

(Note: See solicited as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
verb:  (transitive) To woo; to court.
verb:  (transitive) To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
verb:  (transitive) To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
verb:  To make a petition.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To disturb or trouble; to harass.
verb:  (transitive) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
verb:  (obsolete, rare, transitive) To disturb; to disquiet.
noun:  (chiefly archaic) Solicitation.

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