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Invite

//ɪnˈvaɪt// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An invitation. informal

    "An open invite has been given to all UK workers to join in common cause with the union, as more than 40,000 RMT members at Network Rail and 13 train operating companies walked out on June 21 in the first of three 24-hour strikes over pay, conditions and job security."

  2. 2
    a colloquial expression for invitation wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. transitive

    "We invited our friends round for dinner."

  2. 2
    ask someone in a friendly way to do something wordnet
  3. 3
    To request formally. transitive

    "I invite you all to be seated."

  4. 4
    request the participation or presence of wordnet
  5. 5
    To encourage. transitive

    "I always invite criticism of my definitions."

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  1. 6
    ask to enter wordnet
  2. 7
    To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract. transitive

    "to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense"

  3. 8
    express willingness to have in one's home or environs wordnet
  4. 9
    increase the likelihood of wordnet
  5. 10
    give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting wordnet
  6. 11
    invite someone to one's house wordnet
  7. 12
    have as a guest wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō. Displaced native Old English laþian.

Etymology 2

From the verb invite.

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