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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

招待 [zhāodài]
  1. 1. verb entertain
    招待宾客
    entertain guests
    招待
    reception

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

招待 [zhāodài]
  1. 1. receive (guests); entertain; serve (customers)
    招待
    entertainment allowance or expenses
    谢谢你们的热情招待
    Thank you for your kind hospitality.
    招待客人
    entertain guests
    设宴招待外宾
    give a dinner for (or in honour of) foreign guests
  2. 2. hospitality

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

招待 [zhāodài]
  1. 1. 对宾客或顾客给予礼遇和款待。

Examples

设便宴招待
give a dinner for sb.
招待不周
not be attentive enough to guests
我们简直不知道怎样答谢你们的热情招待
We simply don't know how to repay your kind hospitality.
招待不周,还望海涵。
Please forgive us if we have not looked after you well. or Please forgive us for our poor hospitality.
今天他要亲自下厨房招待你们。
Today he'll treat you to a meal he cooks himself.
招待甚殷
offer cordial hospitality
招待客人
entertain guests
这顿用来招待那些贵宾的翅席价格不菲啊。
The expensive reception dinner for the honored guests featured shark's fin.

Collocations

招待客人
to receive guests
热情招待
to treat guests warmly
设宴招待
to hold a banquet for guests
招待
to serve
招待
a guesthouse

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