I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ask/invite sb to dinner
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Let's ask Kate and Mike to dinner.
be called/invited for (an) interview
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Applicants who are called for interview may be asked to have a medical exam.
invite a guest
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The guests were invited to a dinner at his country house.
invite comment(s) (= ask people to give an opinion )
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The website invites comments from people who visit it.
invite sb to a party
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I’ve been invited to Greg’s party next weekend.
invited guests
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Celebrations continued with a dinner for 100 invited guests.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dinner
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In the evening I was invited to have dinner with a citizen of the city, whose son is a student of.
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When I invite a woman to dinner , I expect her to look at my face.
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She had wild visions of being obliged to invite him to dinner every night.
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Better yet, invite her to dinner .
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I'd been invited to dinner too, but declined.
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The general invites her for dinner .
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He said he'd been meaning to invite us to dinner ever since he arrived.
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She said she invited Brown to Christmas dinner at her home and he refused.
guest
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They formed the bedrock of the college's Black Student Society, which regularly invited guest speakers and performers.
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When I was their invited guest , I was asked not to visit with her.
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A number of important customers were invited as guests of the company.
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If he takes her back to his place, it will mean he has invited other guests .
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These are your invited guests , Atlanta, not army troops.
home
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He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home .
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Decide what you want to invite into your home .
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Some of her married friends will still invite her to their homes , but her ties with others will be weakened.
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As a matter of course, Amy invited children from the Home over to play.
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We would meet secretly and, when she knew her father was away, I was invited to her home .
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We want to invite you to our home .
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Ever since his divorce, nearly a dozen years ago, no student had been invited to his home .
house
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The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint.
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And I invited them to my house , and they met.
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Indeed, all the time I was at Salamanca, I was never once invited to anyone's house .
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Barakat was one of dozens of major Democratic donors and fund-raisers invited to the White House for coffees in 1995 and 1996.
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He invited friends to his house and accepted invitations to theirs.
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Political supporters have been invited to White House functions since the beginning of the republic.
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He was suspicious of her motives in inviting him into the house - he usually got no further than the front doorstep.
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He invited me to his house and as I feasted he killed me.
meeting
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Vicki tells her that when the ship landed, the crew were invited to a meeting by the local inhabitants.
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Neighboring residents also will be invited to attend the meetings .
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The remaining ministers and elders found themselves being invited to address meetings all over the province to explain the imprisonment.
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Representatives of relevant international organizations may be invited to these meetings . 22.
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Parties to the Protocols have the right to be invited to meetings and consultations with the Treaty parties.
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On the fourth Tuesday of each month Speakers are invited to meetings of the Society.
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Ideas and suggestions for the way the community group runs are invited at tonight's meeting .
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They nodded and invited him to a meeting .
party
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Which is why they were invited to the party .
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Normally when they were invited to a party George never wanted to go.
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They resented the fact that they were continually invited to the parties and were unable to refuse.
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You are invited to a party and after a couple of drinks you decide a few crisps or nuts will not hurt.
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Dear Ursula: I was invited to an engagement party for a couple I barely know.
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The Department of Education is inviting interested parties to submit comments on the new support arrangements by October 31.
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Charles had not wished to invite Ivan to the party .
reader
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At various points the book invites the reader to undertake activities and then to discuss the issues with a group.
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A series of close-up drawings of parts of animals, along with written clues, invite readers to guess the animal.
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Last autumn, we invited readers to contribute essays on how they believed information technology would change life in Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Allowing a sixteen-year-old to stay out all night is just inviting trouble.
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Applications for this position are invited from all individuals with relevant experience.
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At the end of the lecture, Dr. Bosch invited the audience to ask questions and share their ideas.
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If you don't maintain your car regularly, you're just inviting trouble.
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Not to provide aid will just invite further catastrophe in the area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In fact, their purpose in inviting him to lunch was to ask him to divorce her.
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Indeed they seemed to invite persecution by preaching openly in public places.
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Perhaps movie marketers should have been more careful about inviting comparisons.
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The adults in these rooms invite the students they work with to be part of a community as well.
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The demonstrators invited retaliation and got it, with sticks and clubs and arrests.
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Those of you who are teaching and training teachers for school, I would invite to rebellion.
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What he doesn't do in contrast to his practice with musical guests is to invite Jazzie to talk.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Mickey's invited us to a party at his house, and no one turns down an invite to Mickey's!
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These days it's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply.