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(v)
To invite someone to enter one's house.
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(transitive) To invite (someone) to come to one's house or other place.
(transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.
(transitive) To receive.
To request.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To enquire of several people.
(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
(figuratively) To request, demand.
(intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
(n)
Misspelling of pay-for. [(US, politics) Something which is used to pay for a bill, such as an increase in taxes.]
The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
(transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal
(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
The desire to purchase goods and services.
To request or petition.
The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
(transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
(intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
(adj)
Having been called.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
(transitive) To call into action.
(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
(transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
Quick; acting without delay.
(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
A person who visits and stays at someone else's house, usually for one or more nights.
(religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
A job or occupation.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(heading) To reach out with one's voice.
(transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
(UK, minced oath) Arsed (bothered; willing to make an effort).
Having been given hope or encouragement.
asked for
A formal message requesting something.
(intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging
(ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
(transitive) To call people together; to convene; to convoke.
(transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection/support.
(transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
A confrontation; a dare.
To ask for entrance or admission into.
(transitive) To write (something, especially a literary or artistic work); to compose.
(transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(idiomatic, transitive) To attract.
(intransitive) To participate, take part or get involved in something.
(transitive) To ask earnestly or beg for (something, such as a benefit or favour).
(transitive) To host (a visiting guest) at one's house.
To order or summon (a person) to one's presence.
(transitive) To invite again.
(transitive) To allow in; grant permission or admittance to; invite in or over; admit.
(archaic) third-person singular present simple form of invite
(transitive, chiefly UK) To offer someone to get back to one's house after a date.
(transitive) To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task.
(transitive, formal) To wait for.
(transitive, informal) To gain participation in an activity, especially an attractive one.
(intransitive) To ask for help.
(informal, intransitive) To want to be a part of something.
(intransitive, copulative) To communicate with a base etc, by telephone.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
(transitive) To bring in; introduce; present; usher in; adduce; induce; cause to come in.
(intransitive) To voluntarily join a cause or organization, especially military service.
(transitive) To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.
(transitive) To total; to amount to.
(idiomatic, intransitive, with "in") To participate or join.
(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
To implore or invoke.
A reply to an invitation.
(transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
To introduce, add or initiate a person or group of people to an organisation or event; to give (someone) a share or portion of something.
(transitive) To acquire or obtain.
(often passive voice) To involve someone in a difficult situation, especially when they are resistant to taking part.
(obsolete, transitive) To solicit.