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invitation English

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What does invitation mean?
Definitions in simple English

invitation

If you receive an invitation, you are being asked to attend an event. The wedding invitations were mailed a week ago. An invitation to a party can be written one or a verbal one. My little boy received an invitation to a schoolmate's birthday party.

invitation

a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something an invitation to lunch she threw the invitation away a tempting allurement she was an invitation to trouble

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Simple sentences

She declined the invitation.
She refused my invitation.
Jessie accepted the invitation at once.
Do you think Tom will accept my invitation?
We accepted her invitation.
I got an invitation.
Robert was so busy he had to turn down an invitation to play golf.
If I were free, I would accept his invitation.
As such is the case, I am sorry I can't accept your kind invitation.
I'm afraid I can't accept your invitation.
I addressed the envelope containing the invitation.
I received an invitation.
I accepted his invitation.
I declined his invitation to dinner.
I accepted her invitation.
I had to decline the invitation because I was ill.
I am busy; otherwise I would accept your invitation.
Thank you for your invitation.
Having accepted the invitation, he failed to show up.
Seiko accepted his dinner invitation.
I am glad to accept your invitation.
I will be very happy to accept your invitation.
Mary declined an invitation to the concert.
I am sure of his accepting our invitation.
Thank you very much for your invitation.
To my regret I cannot accept your invitation.
We accepted his invitation.

Movie subtitles

Oh, wow, it's Jayma's wedding invitation.
Wait a minute! That's no invitation.
Mr. Kringelein would be a good friend and not accept your invitation to dance.
I couldn't think of not accepting the invitation to dance.
I accept your invitation, but I find no solitary student with his books.
Couldn't you see what was back of that invitation?
Sir Guy accepted our invitation. We'd be rude not to accept his.
Well, that will is practically an invitation to commit murder.
I wouldn't have known where to come if Eve hadn't left me an invitation.
I thought none of you would believe me.. ifI admittedthathe'dcome at my invitation.
They can prove that Hammond came to your house at your urgent invitation.
Now, isn't that a charming invitation?
You want a special invitation.
I didn't get my invitation to the wedding.
Henk received an invitation from Prof. Oort, the director of the Leiden Observatory, to come and work with him for a few months.
In the meantime, Henk van de Huist received an invitation from Oxford to give the famous Halley Lecture in May 1953.
Opened the door to the roof for her, basically gave her an invitation.
So as not to raise suspicion he accepts Monros invitation to stay for the night.
I beg my noble guests not to disdain my invitation, just a simple meal.
Have you guys got an invitation?
We give you invitation of Chevalier.
I had no reason to believe my invitation would give offence to Shanghai Lily.
And now you refuse my invitation for tomorrow night.
Your invitation, sir?
Our picture shows them on their way to the police headquarters following an invitation from the Marshal.
Sir Guy accepted our invitation.
An invitation?
Is that the main dialogue of this invitation?
That's no invitation.
I've just had an invitation to the dance.
My little friend, you've honored me by accepting my invitation of last night.
They sent me an engraved invitation, so I ought to stay a while.
Mr. Yamato is very pleased that you've accepted his invitation!
Then you will accept his invitation?

News and current affairs

Ban rescinded Iran's invitation to Geneva II under pressure from the US and the Syrian opposition.
The resulting cash-based economy is an invitation to corruption.
This is the reason Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was cautious in her reaction to the Saudis' ambiguous acceptance of their invitation to attend the conference.
Criminal, civil and administrative codes that reflect Georgia's contemporary democratic and market-based reality have replaced the old Leninist norms that were an open invitation to corrupt practices.
But what really attracts disaffected young people is the invitation to be part of something that seems larger than themselves and the societies in which they live.
So Putin, who usually seems omnipotent, remains wary of issuing an invitation to Pope Benedict.
Fomenting violent resistance by demoralizing those who might still listen to reason is an invitation to disaster.
In exchange, Shapiro handed the ultra-orthodox leader of Israel's Shas party an invitation to the White House.
Mitchell gave a similar invitation to Abbas.
The weakness of the US and Europe today is an open invitation for Russia to return to its old imperial politics.
Four years ago, I gave a series of lectures at the invitation of the Ministry of Education and squeezed in a visit with my uncle, a Vietcong who stayed behind after the Communist victory.
Boris Yeltsin repeated the invitation in 1991, and Vladimir Putin did the same on his visit to Rome soon after his inauguration as Russia's president.
An invitation for the Pope to visit Moscow (a cherished dream of John Paul II) seemed near at last.
A stick with which to beat back any instinct in the Kremlin to issue such an invitation was needed by the Patriarch, and so the Vatican's decision to reorganize its dioceses in Russia must have seemed a godsend.
Yerevan - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's recent invitation to Turkish President Abdullah Gul to visit Yerevan to watch a football match together was historic.
This is to say nothing of the fiasco surrounding the withdrawn invitation to Iran, whose buy-in will be essential for any resolution.
Sometimes we dissidents were not invited, but received an apology, and sometimes we were invited, but did not accept the invitation so as not to complicate the lives of our courageous diplomat friends.
Financial markets were eager to lend to these households, in part because the credit markets were deregulated, which served as an invitation to reckless lending.
Most of its military or police missions have been based on UN Security Council resolutions, and ESDP missions outside Europe have been at the invitation of local authorities.
Japan's ruling party and leading opposition party are coming around to support the idea, and Obama's invitation to China to join suggests that the US is trying to forge regional consensus where it can.
The EU will take up the Obama administration's invitation to share its views with his Detention Policy Task Force on international law principles relevant to the fight against terrorism.
Somewhat more promising is the possible invitation to India to participate in developing, alongside France, Germany, and Britain, the new joint Euro-fighter.
In 1986, Nakasone went to Beijing at the personal invitation of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang and laid the cornerstone for a Sino-Japanese Youth Exchange Center, promising to forge future friendships with China.
Musharraf did head that way a few months later, when he forced an invitation out of Singh to watch a cricket match between the two sides in New Delhi in 2005.
At the end of a speech in the Lok Sabah, the lower house of India's parliament, Singh issued his formal invitation.
Attempts to disturb Asia's territorial status quo are an invitation to endemic conflict - a concern that led Asian states to welcome the US and Russia to their annual East Asian Summit.
Because Japan would not want to be disconnected from the US for strategic reasons, it might indeed accept America's invitation.
The publicity that the press gives to these visits has helped impede an invitation to Koizumi from China's leaders for a state visit.

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