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1 invite
• to invite sb in/up inviter qn à entrer/monterb. ( = ask for) [+ sb's attention, subscriptions] demander• when he had finished he invited questions from the audience quand il eut fini il invita le public à poser des questionsc. ( = lead to) [+ questions, doubts] susciter ; [+ discussion] inviter à ; [+ failure, defeat] chercher2. noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✦ Lorsque invite est un verbe, l'accent tombe sur la deuxième syllabe: ɪnˈvaɪt, lorsque c'est un nom, sur la première: ˈɪnvaɪt.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I've been invited out to dinner this evening j'ai été invité à dîner ce soir► invite over separable transitive verb inviter (à venir)* * *1.(colloq) ['ɪnvaɪt] noun invitation f ( to do à faire)2. [ɪn'vaɪt]transitive verb1) inviter [person]to be invited back — ( repaying hospitality) être invité en retour; ( a second time) être invité de nouveau
to invite somebody out/in — inviter quelqu'un à sortir avec soi/à entrer
to invite somebody over ou round (to one's house) — inviter quelqu'un chez soi
2) ( ask for) solliciter [comments]3) ( court) chercher [trouble]4) Financeto invite bids ou tenders — faire un appel d'offres
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2 invite
(a) (ask to come) inviter;∎ to invite sb for lunch inviter qn à déjeuner;∎ the Thomsons have invited us over les Thomson nous ont invités chez eux;∎ I invited him up for a coffee je l'ai invité à monter prendre un café;∎ the discussion took place in front of a specially invited audience la discussion s'est déroulée devant un public spécialement invité ou invité pour l'occasion(b) (ask to do something) demander, solliciter;∎ they invited her to become president ils lui ont demandé de devenir présidente;∎ I've been invited for interview j'ai été convoqué à un entretien∎ to invite bids or tenders faire un appel d'offres;∎ he invited comment on his book il a demandé aux gens leur avis sur son livre;∎ applications are invited for the position toute personne intéressée est invitée à déposer un dossier de candidature;∎ we invite suggestions from readers toute suggestion de la part de nos lecteurs est la bienvenue(d) (trouble, defeat, disaster) aller au-devant de; (criticism) s'exposer à; (doubt, sympathy) appeler, attirer;∎ you're just inviting failure tu vas au-devant d'un échec;∎ his garbled answers simply invited disbelief ses réponses embrouillées ne faisaient que susciter la méfiance2 noun['ɪnvaɪt] familiar invitation□ finviter (à sortir);∎ she's invited me out tonight elle m'a invité à sortir (avec elle) ce soir;∎ he's always getting invited out il est toujours invité quelque part
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