Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Attractive; tempting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of giving an invitation.
- noun An invitation.
- Alluring; tempting; attractive: as, an inviting prospect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Alluring; tempting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Alluring ;tempting ;attractive . - verb Present participle of
invite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective attractive and tempting
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Examples
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When the trouble in the Police Board had reached a point where it seemed impossible not to understand that Roosevelt and his side were fighting a cold and treacherous conspiracy against the cause of good government, we had the spectacle of a Christian Endeavor Society inviting the man who had hatched the plot, the bitter and relentless enemy whom the mayor had summoned to resign, and afterward did his best to remove as a fatal obstacle to reform, inviting this man to come before it and speak of Christian citizenship!
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And here's a 2007 BusinessWeek piece written by Kappos himself in which he calls inviting the public in to do patent review "classic arbitrage" -- that is, a pairing of "those who need [information] but lack the resources to generate it," or, in other word, USPTO's overworked patent examiners, with "those who have expertise, motivation, and access to information."
Obama's Patent Chief Choice Has Known Collaborative Tendencies Scola, Nancy 2009
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This Saturday, Literacy Volunteers of Chenango County are once again inviting community …
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This Saturday, Literacy Volunteers of Chenango County are once again inviting community …
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The day progressive grassroots work as hard and ceaselessly as evangelical wingnuts in inviting middle america to share our way of looking at things is the day when middle america rejects “the crazy” once and for all!
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 40 Senate Votes For The Public Option 2010
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The report said: "[This] is not necessarily an extensive or accurate evidence base for determining whether there may be cause for concern in inviting the proposed speaker."
Student charged with trying to blow up plane 'not radicalised at UCL' Jeevan Vasagar 2010
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Seattle Public Libraries is again inviting Seattlites to Beacon Hill to weigh in on the future of SPL.
I Can Hardly Think of Anyone Else on Earth with More Stories to Tell « PubliCola 2010
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Michaele places phone calls inviting everyone to come grape-stomping at Oasis Winery.
Time-travel, crashing 101, and old news: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#4, Aug. 26) 2010
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Then begin inviting your friends and colleagues to register.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2008 » October 2008
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If's it's permanent, then I think you made the wrong decision in inviting her in.
JUST RANTING 2008
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