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Pimp
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In feudal England, a type of tenure by which a tenant was permitted to use real property that belonged to a lord in exchange for the performance of some service, such as providing young women for the use and pleasure of the lord.

An individual who, for a fee, supplies another individual with a prostitute for sexual purposes. To pander, or cater to the sexual desires of others in exchange for money.

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Prostitution.

pimp n. a person who procures a prostitute for customers or vice versa, sharing the profits of the woman's activities. Supposedly he provides protection for the prostitutes, but quite often he will threaten, brutalize, rape, cheat and induce drug addiction of his women. A pimp commits the crime of pandering. (See: prostitution, pander, panderer)
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A brothel-keeper made almost pounds 80,000 from her South Wales business.
Brothel madam made pounds 80,000 by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
LET the sound of the prison door slamming shut on brothel-keeper Carl Prichatt act as a warning to those who seek to make money from this trade.
OurSay by Birmingham Mail (England)
In one case, a drug dealer was ordered to pay back pounds 100,000, while a serial car thief had to cough up pounds 90,000 and two brothel-keepers had to come up with pounds 40,000.
CROOKS COUGH UP pounds 3m A YEAR; CRIME REALLY DOESN'T PAY by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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