invite someone over
invite
noun[ C ]
 informaluk /ˈɪn.vaɪt/ us /ˈɪn.vaɪt/
an invitation: 邀请，约请
I didn't get an invite to their wedding.我没有收到他们的婚礼邀请。

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rejection
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invite | American Dictionary

invite
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈvɑɪt/

inviteverb[T] (ASK)

to ask someone in a polite or friendly way to come somewhere, such as to a party, or to formally ask someone to do something:
Architects were invited to submit their designs for a new city hall.
I think we should invite her over to our place for coffee.

inviteverb[T] (ENCOURAGE)

to do something that could cause something else to happen:
If you’re scared of an animal, make a lot of noise, because running away usually invites problems.

invite | Business English

invite
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪnˈvaɪt/us
to ask someone to go to an event:
invite sb to sthShe is a good person to invite to this conference.
invite sb for sthWe are still looking at the candidates' CVs before deciding who to invite for interview.
to formally or politely ask for something:
invite bids/offers/tendersHe will invite bids for the world's first e-university.
invite comments/questions/suggestions
The chairman will invite debate and then move to a vote on it.
Applications are invited for the post.

Examples of invite

invite
Readers are invited to participate in the discussion.
A group of scholars were therefore invited to present their national case stories from the field.
The study reveals a much higher compliance rate when women are directly invited for mammography.
The second group of questions describes the adequacy, quality, and balance of the evidence presented by the experts invited to speak at the conference.
Individual semistructured interviews were conducted wherein participants were invited to discuss predetermined issues at length.
The correspondent, as observer, occupies a mediating position in these reports, inviting the reader to join him in his journey of discovery.
Contextual empiricism invites the question: what controls background assumptions?
Therefore, the authors of the reports were invited to prepare publishable papers based on their reports.
The darkened parlor of the seance invited and embodied the disruption of the ordinary.
The latter was then invited to draft, as a coda, a reflection to the various commentaries.
A total of 184 of the 1150 inmates were chosen randomly and invited to participate in the study.
While the artifact often invites alternative identifications, ultimately it confirms its owner in a socially and ideologically acceptable situation.
Hospitable and friendly, they invited us to their home for a chat.
Moreover, this strategy must widen the scope of policy debate by inviting 'nongovernmental groups into the discussion' (p. 242).
You are an engineer whose technical accomplishments are so outstanding that you have been invited to sit on the board of your company.
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