Solicit
verb
To politely ask for something.
The charity is soliciting donations for its renovation projects.
Often appears as...
- solicit advice
- solicit funds
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Formal
verb
To attempt to sell something.
He is soliciting his new book to various publishers.
Often appears as...
- solicit business
- solicit donations
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Formal
verb
To ask for something from someone, especially illegally.
She was caught soliciting bribes from clients.
Often appears as...
- solicit prostitution
- solicit drugs
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Formal, Disapproving
verb
To make a petition or request.
Many people solicited the mayor for better public services.
Often appears as...
- solicit aid
- solicit help
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Formal
verb
To politely ask for something.
The charity is soliciting donations for its renovation projects.
Often appears as...
- solicit advice
- solicit funds
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To attempt to sell something.
He is soliciting his new book to various publishers.
Often appears as...
- solicit business
- solicit donations
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To ask for something from someone, especially illegally.
She was caught soliciting bribes from clients.
Often appears as...
- solicit prostitution
- solicit drugs
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
To make a petition or request.
Many people solicited the mayor for better public services.
Often appears as...
- solicit aid
- solicit help
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Polite Requests
Used in situations where you're asking respectfully, often in non-sales-related contexts.
Could you solicit feedback from the team for me?
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Tone
Suggests a formal style; likely to be seen in business or organizational communications.
We're soliciting expert opinions for the conference.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressing Tact
Implies a subtle, gentle approach when asking - not demanding or abrupt.
I'd like to solicit your assistance on my project, please.
Pro Tip 1/3Polite Requests
Used in situations where you're asking respectfully, often in non-sales-related contexts.
Could you solicit feedback from the team for me?
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Tone
Suggests a formal style; likely to be seen in business or organizational communications.
We're soliciting expert opinions for the conference.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressing Tact
Implies a subtle, gentle approach when asking - not demanding or abrupt.
I'd like to solicit your assistance on my project, please.
Pro Tip 1/3Polite Requests
Used in situations where you're asking respectfully, often in non-sales-related contexts.
Could you solicit feedback from the team for me?
Pro Tip 2/3Professional Tone
Suggests a formal style; likely to be seen in business or organizational communications.
We're soliciting expert opinions for the conference.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressing Tact
Implies a subtle, gentle approach when asking - not demanding or abrupt.
I'd like to solicit your assistance on my project, please.
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Eduardo Briceño: How to...
and we can observe and emulate experts. The observation, reflection and adjustment is a learning zone. And finally, we can lead and lower the stakes for others by sharing what we want to get better at, by asking questions about what we don't know, by soliciting feedback and by sharing our mistakes and what we've learned from them,
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The family structure of...
and those gentle giants are very good at doing that, soliciting them. Leaving family is a really hard things for the males, but they survive and they figure out who to hang out with. So, just to end here, I just wanted to say that since they are so similar to us, and have these characters,
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The mind behind Tesla,...
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. So I think that's an important thing to do, and then also to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends.
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How to spot a pyramid...
a common type of fraud where members make money by recruiting more people to buy in. Typically, the founder solicits an initial group of people to buy in and promote the scheme. They are then encouraged to recruit others and promised part of the money those people invest,
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Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
talk about how it starts let's talk about how this pair bomb begins after these birds spend years at sea they do come back to the place where they're born not just the island but even the neighborhood where they grew up one bird on the ground soliciting the
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Isaac Lidsky: What...
What's that noise there? Yeah. So, for example, in my leadership team meetings, I don't see facial expressions or gestures. I've learned to solicit a lot more verbal feedback. I basically force people to tell me what they think. And in this respect,
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What almost dying taught...
Over the years, people from all over the world had read my column, and they'd responded with letters, comments and emails. It was a mix, as is often the case, for writers. I got a lot of unsolicited advice
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The dark side of...
can give you story after story about all of the unsolicited and mostly unwanted donations that always seem to follow a disaster and while it may seem logical that that could help it doesn't and that
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The game that can give...
It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world since I gave that talk, is Jane, games are great and all, but on your deathbed,
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Gorilla Mating PIPE...
GK's sole aim will be to mate they are very active in soliciting the male's so yeah it is almost like there it's a different gorilla from one day to the
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Eduardo Briceño: How to...
and we can observe and emulate experts. The observation, reflection and adjustment is a learning zone. And finally, we can lead and lower the stakes for others by sharing what we want to get better at, by asking questions about what we don't know, by soliciting feedback and by sharing our mistakes and what we've learned from them,
Video examples
The family structure of...
and those gentle giants are very good at doing that, soliciting them. Leaving family is a really hard things for the males, but they survive and they figure out who to hang out with. So, just to end here, I just wanted to say that since they are so similar to us, and have these characters,
Video examples
The mind behind Tesla,...
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive. So I think that's an important thing to do, and then also to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends.
Video examples
How to spot a pyramid...
a common type of fraud where members make money by recruiting more people to buy in. Typically, the founder solicits an initial group of people to buy in and promote the scheme. They are then encouraged to recruit others and promised part of the money those people invest,
Video examples
Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
talk about how it starts let's talk about how this pair bomb begins after these birds spend years at sea they do come back to the place where they're born not just the island but even the neighborhood where they grew up one bird on the ground soliciting the
Video examples
Isaac Lidsky: What...
What's that noise there? Yeah. So, for example, in my leadership team meetings, I don't see facial expressions or gestures. I've learned to solicit a lot more verbal feedback. I basically force people to tell me what they think. And in this respect,
Video examples
What almost dying taught...
Over the years, people from all over the world had read my column, and they'd responded with letters, comments and emails. It was a mix, as is often the case, for writers. I got a lot of unsolicited advice
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The dark side of...
can give you story after story about all of the unsolicited and mostly unwanted donations that always seem to follow a disaster and while it may seem logical that that could help it doesn't and that
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The game that can give...
It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world since I gave that talk, is Jane, games are great and all, but on your deathbed,
Video examples
Gorilla Mating PIPE...
GK's sole aim will be to mate they are very active in soliciting the male's so yeah it is almost like there it's a different gorilla from one day to the
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Quote examples
Sara Blakely
American Businesswoman
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.
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B. J. Novak
American Actor
I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!
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Whitney Tilson
American Businessman
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe.
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Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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Richard Edelman
American Businessman
We must be able to appeal to the CCO and CMO with programs that have purpose at the core, that start movements and solicit views of the core community of brand supporters.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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John Gray
American Author
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
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Max Boot
American Author
Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers' nightmare.
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Wendy Liebman
American Comedian
People ask me if they can send me material, and some people give or send it to me unsolicited, but I rarely buy jokes.
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Jillian Michaels
American Athlete
If you don't solicit me for help, I'll leave you alone.
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Sara Blakely
American Businesswoman
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.
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B. J. Novak
American Actor
I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!
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Whitney Tilson
American Businessman
While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe.
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Mary Harris Jones
American Activist
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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Richard Edelman
American Businessman
We must be able to appeal to the CCO and CMO with programs that have purpose at the core, that start movements and solicit views of the core community of brand supporters.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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John Gray
American Author
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
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Max Boot
American Author
Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers' nightmare.
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Wendy Liebman
American Comedian
People ask me if they can send me material, and some people give or send it to me unsolicited, but I rarely buy jokes.
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Jillian Michaels
American Athlete
If you don't solicit me for help, I'll leave you alone.
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