Phrasal Verb - ask someone out (to something)

A phrase that combines a verb with a preposition or adverb or both and that functions as a verb whose meaning is different from the combined meanings of the individual words.

Phrasal Verb:

ask someone out (to something)

Meaning / Example:

1. and ask someone out (for something) to invite someone to go out (to something or some place) [on a date].
> He asked her out to dinner, but she had other plans.
> She couldn't go, so he asked out someone else.

2. to invite someone for a visit to a place in the country or some other location remote from the center of things.
> Tom must be tired of the city. Let's ask him out to our place.

Phrasal verbs, also called two-word verbs, are idiomatic expressions wherein the second element of the verb (the adverb or particle) is not necessarily predictable.

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