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Invite   /ɪnvˈaɪt/   Listen
Invite

verb
(past & past part. invited; pres. part. inviting)
1.
Increase the likelihood of.  Synonym: ask for.  "Invite criticism"
2.
Invite someone to one's house.  Synonyms: ask over, ask round.
3.
Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting.  Synonym: tempt.
4.
Ask someone in a friendly way to do something.  Synonym: bid.
5.
Have as a guest.  Synonym: pay for.
6.
Ask to enter.  Synonym: ask in.
7.
Request the participation or presence of.  Synonym: call for.
8.
Express willingness to have in one's home or environs.  Synonyms: receive, take in.
noun
1.
A colloquial expression for invitation.



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"Invite" Quotes from Famous Books



... invite me to the funeral. Go to; I have attended a thousand of them. I have seen Tom Sawyer's remains in all the different kinds of dramatic shrouds there are. You cannot start anything fresh. Are you serious when you propose to ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... been plotting mischief. He did not care so much that it was against the Dowager, if it had not been that the memory of his dead brother came in to complicate things. And, after all, his plotting seemed to have come to naught. He had gone so far as to invite young Langrishe to dinner for a specific occasion, without result. The young man had written to say that he had effected his exchange into the —th Madras Light Infantry, and would be so very much occupied up to the time of his departure that he feared ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

... of July, the anniversary of American Independence, was to be duly celebrated by a ball, for which my friend had received an invite printed upon the back of the nine of hearts; a medium now obsolete in England, but conserved here ...
— Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power

... hastily interposed Mrs. Gannette. "She's going to be dropped. Name's already on the black list. I don't know what Mrs. Hawley-Crowles was thinking of to invite her to-night! Her estate is being handled by Ames and Company, and J. Wilton says there won't be much left ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... of it except from a single company. Yet the price may conceivably be a normal one. It may stand not much above the cost of production to the monopoly itself. If it does so, it is because a higher price would invite competition. The great company prefers to sell all the goods that are required at a moderate price rather than to invite rivals into its territory. This is a monopoly in form but not in fact, for it is shorn of its injurious power; and the thing ...
— Essentials of Economic Theory - As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy • John Bates Clark


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