invitation

invitation
noun
1 (C) a written or spoken request to someone, inviting them to go somewhere or do something
(+ to): Did you get an invitation to the party? | invitation to do sth: Shortly afterwards, Dawson received an invitation to speak at a scientific conference. | accept an invitation: President Yeltsin has accepted an invitation to visit the White House in June. | decline an invitation formal (=to not accept an invitation) | by invitation only (=only those people who have been invited can attend)
2 (C) a card inviting someone to attend a party, wedding etc: Have you sent out all the wedding invitations yet?
3 without invitation without having been invited: They were always dropping by to visit, usually without invitation.
4 (singular, uncountable) encouragement to do something: take sth as an invitation to do sth: He seemed to take my silence as an invitation to talk.
5 at sb's invitation also at the invitation of sb if you go somewhere or do something at someone's invitation, you go there or do it because they have invited you to
6 open/standing invitation an invitation to do something, especially to visit someone, at any time you like: My cousin Diana is living in China, and I have an open invitation to visit her.
7 be an open invitation for/to sb to make it very easy for someone to rob you or harm you: Leaving the car unlocked like that is just an open invitation to thieves.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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