invitation to treat
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An indication that a party is willing to negotiate or receive offers, which does not itself amount to a binding offer.
Goods displayed in a shop window are an invitation to treat, so the customer makes the offer at the till.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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