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INVITATIONAL [5 records]

Record 1 2008-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
DEF

A stake race, where the field is comprised only of horses that were invited to race by the Racing Secretary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
DEF

A type of meet that requires a club to request an invitation to attend the meet.

CONT

To be in that competition was an honour. After Senior Nationals I competed in London in our own invitational meet.

CONT

The Athens International Hockey Tournament, which is taking place between 4 and 8 February 2004, is an invitational tournament, with teams being invited to compete by the invited to compete by the Athens 2004 Organising Committee.

CONT

Speedos were worn by 70% of the winners at the 1974 Los Angeles invitational tournament.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
CONT

Après le championnat national senior, je me suis rendue à la compétition de London, notre propre compétition sur invitation.

CONT

Le Tournoi international de hockey d'Athènes, prévu du 4 au 8 février 2004, est une compétition sur invitation mise sur pied par le Comité d'organisation des Jeux de la XXVIIIe olympiade (ATHOC).

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
  • Skating
DEF

Competition in which all competitors and/or teams are invited by the host.

CONT

Eleven Ontario Conference universities: Brock, Carleton, Guelph, McGill, Queen's, Ryerson, Toronto, Trenton, Waterloo, Western, and Wilfrid Laurier compete annually for the top spot at the invitational competitions and the OUA Figure Skating Championships. ... After placing 2nd at the Queen's invitaional in November, we improved to take the gold medal at the Waterloo Invitational.

OBS

Figure skating terms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
  • Patinage
CONT

Onze universités ontariennes, soit Brock, Carleton, Guelph, McGill, Queen's, Ryerson, Toronto, Trent, Waterloo, Western et Wilfrid Laurier se disputent chaque année la première place aux compétitions invitations et aux Championnats de patinage artistique des Sports Universitaires de l'Ontario. [...] Après nous être classés deuxièmes à la compétition invitation de Queens en novembre, nous nous sommes améliorés et avons remporté la médaille d'or à la compétition invitation de Waterloo.

OBS

Terme de patinage artistique.

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
  • Specialized Vocabulary and Phraseologism of Sports
DEF

(Qualifies) a contest (as a horse race, track and field meet, or basketball tournament) open to invited participants. (From WESPO, 1976, p. 232).

OBS

"Invitational" is an adjective or a noun.

CONT

The use of the term "meet" with reference to track and field and swimming is so universal that it is employed of nearly all track and field or swimming competition, even invitational meets for individuals as well as for clubs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
  • Vocabulaire spécialisé et phraséologie des sports
DEF

Se dit d'une compétition, d'une rencontre, d'un tournoi, d'un camp d'entraînement, etc. où la participation est restreinte aux athlètes invités.

OBS

sur invitation : se dit d'une épreuve d'athlétisme (ou de toute autre discipline) pour laquelle sont seuls qualifiés certains concurrents de choix invités par les organisateurs.

OBS

On dit de plus en plus «rencontre invitation», «tournoi invitation» plutôt que «rencontre sur invitation»; on dira cependant «participer à Skate Canada sur invitation des organisateurs».

Spanish

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Record 5 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
OBS

Prepared or entered in response to a request or challenge (invitation article; invitation exhibit); specific: limited to invited participants (invitation tournament).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
CONT

Au cours d'un conseil restreint, tenu à l'Hôtel Matignon, M. Pompidou s'est opposé à toute hausse des tarifs publics. [0103]

Spanish

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