ask back

English

Verb

ask back (third-person singular simple present asks back, present participle asking back, simple past and past participle asked back)

1. (transitive) To invite an interviewee to a further interview.
2. (transitive, chiefly UK) To offer someone to get back to one's house after a date.

   Synonym: invite back

   Coordinate term: ask out

Further reading

• “ask back”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “ask sb back”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.