to solicit
48
6.8
- verb
- /səˈlɪsɪt/
- Formal
:
solicitar
- We are always eager to solicit donations from people who think like we do.
- solicit input
- solicit feedback
- solicit donations
I, I'm usually eager to solicit constructive feedback.
- I, I'm usually eager to solicit constructive feedback.
- Every year we solicit some suggestions and we vote on them.
- Instead of informing investors of the situation, Sundown continued to solicit new investments.
- They're saying they're, they're interviewing a number of different writers and soliciting their takes.
- And I think that it has solicited certain allies from within that power structure itself.
- One is to solicit aid from friends and loved ones and families saying I'm in need, please support me.
- So in the past sort of six months or so, we've been through this process of soliciting proposals from the whole community for using JBST.
- He says his analysts, you know, talk to him only when soliciting the bill.
Examples
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Every year we solicit some suggestions and we vote on them.
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Second, instructors at other universities were approached to solicit their students to complete the survey.
Academic text (2013) -
Then I will solicit questions from the floor.
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And I could never solicit such a request.
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It's not appropriate for you to solicit money from me.
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I was ordered not to solicit Americans, and I did not.
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It's one of the sources of creativity and success for NASA that we solicit the best ideas and we get a lot of them.
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So, in order to fulfill that dream, he started soliciting funds from any corner of the world.
Fiction book (1991) -
Students would develop a minimum viable product (MVP) and solicit feedback from target customers.
Academic text (2017) -
At the meeting, the manager will solicit feedback from the team on the new project proposal.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To request that someone do something or meet a requirement
∞
1.0
To tell someone you want or need something
∞
1.0
To ask for something politely or formally
981
1.0
Ask someone for information, advice, or help
417
1.0
Ask someone very seriously and urgently for something
369
3.3
Ask people in public to give or do something
232
3.9
Ask someone urgently and emotionally for something
47
8.2
To ask someone earnestly for something
40
5.3
To ask someone very seriously to do or not do something
12
8.1
Ask someone in a serious, emotional way to do something
3
9.6
To beg someone, often in prayer, for help or favor
How Strongly
- Formal
40
5.3
417
1.0
591
3.2
- Formal
48
6.8
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Solicit comes from the Latin verb sollicitare, which meant 'to urge' or 'to disturb' and is the same root as solicitous ('showing care' or worry). So when you solicit signatures or donations you are earnestly 'urging' people to give or help.