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What is another word for streetwalkers?

Pronunciation: [stɹˈiːtwɔːkəz] (IPA)

Streetwalkers is a pejorative term used to refer to sex workers who solicit clients on the street. There are several alternative terms that can be used to refer to sex workers without disrespecting or stigmatizing them. One of these terms is sex worker, which acknowledges the individuals' profession without making a negative judgement about their character. Other synonyms may include call girl, escort, courtesan, or prostitute. It is important to use respectful language when referring to individuals who engage in sex work, as they face significant social, legal, and health challenges due to the stigma and discrimination associated with their occupation.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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They will read it in the headlines of the papers-a few suicides, a few defaulters, a few new convicts, an unclaimed corpse or two at the morgue; a few innocent girls, whose fathers' fortunes have gone to swell Camemeyer's and 'Standard Oil's' already uncountable gold, turned into streetwalkers; a few new palaces on Fifth Avenue, and a few new libraries given to communities that formerly took pride in building them from their honestly earned savings.
"Friday, the Thirteenth"
Thomas W. Lawson
Up in the Coombe with chummies and streetwalkers and then the rest of the year sober as a judge.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
"There are a great many haunts of streetwalkers," he said, "besides the Strand and the Haymarket.
"The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant"
Alexander Johnstone Wilson

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  • Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.
    Rebecca Solnit

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