Definition of "invite"

invite¹

/ɪnˈvaɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present invites, present participle inviting, simple past and past participle invited
1. (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
2. (transitive) To request formally.
3. (transitive) To encourage.
  Quotations
  The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
  1902, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Second State of the Union Address
4. (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
  Quotations
  to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
  1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,
  shady groves, that easy sleep invite
  1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  There no delusive hope invites despair.
  1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error

invite²

/ˈɪnvaɪt/

noun
plural invites
1. (informal) An invitation.
  Quotations
  An open invite has been given to all UK workers to join in common cause with the union, as more than 40,000 RMT members at Network Rail and 13 train operating companies walked out on June 21 in the first of three 24-hour strikes over pay, conditions and job security.
  2022 June 29, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Strikes set to escalate as RMT issues rallying call”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6