different between prostitution vs stripper

English

Etymology

From Late Latin prostitutio.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pros?ti?tu?tion

Noun

prostitution (usually uncountable, plural prostitutions)

1. Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.

   • 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.

2. (by extension) Debasement for profit or impure motives.

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

Synonyms

• harlotry
• oldest profession, world's oldest profession
• oldest occupation
• whoredom

Related terms

• prostitute
• child prostitution

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin pr?stit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s.ti.ty.sj??/

Noun

prostitution f (plural prostitutions)

1. prostitution

Related terms

• prostituée
• prostituer

Further reading

• “prostitution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

strip +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??p?(?)/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /?k??p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Noun

stripper (plural strippers)

1. Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
2. A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
3. A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.
4. A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
5. (gambling) A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.

Synonyms

• (dancer): ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler

Related terms

• striptease

Translations

See also

• Striptease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• trippers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From strippe +? -er

Noun

stripper m (definite singular stripperen, indefinite plural strippere, definite plural stripperne)

1. a stripper (striptease artist)

See also

• strippar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

stripper

1. present of strippe

References

• “stripper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stripper_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Portuguese

Noun

stripper m, f (plural strippers)

1. stripper (one who removes one’s clothes as entertainment)

Related terms

• striptease

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?t?ipe?/, [es?t??i.pe?]

Noun

stripper m or f (plural strippers or stripper)

1. stripper (one who removes one’s clothes as entertainment)

Related terms

• striptease
• estriptís, estriptis