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solicitar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • apply verb To formally request something, such as a job or place at a school.
  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • canvass verb To go around asking people for their opinions, support, or votes.
  • invite verb To ask someone to come to an event or take part in something.
  • request verb To ask for something, often politely or formally.
  • solicit verb To ask for or try to obtain something, often persistently or formally.

Senses

solicitar is used for these senses in English:

  • apply (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
  • call To come to pass; to afflict.
  • canvass (specifically, politics) To seek the support of (voters or a constituency) in a forthcoming election or poll through personal solicitation or public addresses.
  • invite (transitive) To request formally.

apply — full definition

  1. verb To formally request something, such as a job or place at a school.
  2. verb To put something into use for a particular purpose.
  3. verb To be relevant or have an effect on a particular case.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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