invite

verb

1. (transitive)To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

   “We invited our friends round for dinner.”

2. (transitive)To request formally.

   “I invite you all to be seated.”

   “I always invite criticism of my essays.”

3. (transitive)To encourage.

   “Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.”

   “The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.”

   “"Blindness invites confidence," replied Carrados. "We are out of the running—human rivalry ceases to exist. […]"”

4. (transitive)To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

   “to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense”

   “shady groves, that easy sleep invite”

   “There no delusive hope invites despair.”

noun

1. (informal)An invitation.

   “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.”