"wine and dine" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: wines and dines [present, singular, third-person], wining and dining [participle, present], wined and dined [participle, past], wined and dined [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|wine<> and dine<>}} wine and dine (third-person singular simple present wines and dines, present participle wining and dining, simple past and past participle wined and dined)
  1. (transitive) To entertain or woo someone with a fine meal. Tags: transitive Translations (to entertain someone with a fine meal): etet-itat (Hungarian), jól tart (Hungarian), 供応する (kyōō suru) (Japanese), もてなす (motenasu) (Japanese), agasajar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wine_and_dine-en-verb-2xLWBLMx Categories (other): English coordinated pairs Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'to entertain someone with a fine meal': 100 0
  2. (intransitive) To eat lavishly. Tags: intransitive Translations (to eat lavishly): eszik-iszik (Hungarian), lakomázik (Hungarian), ご馳走になる (go-chisō ni naru) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-wine_and_dine-en-verb-OroufIDb Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 8 92 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 90 Disambiguation of 'to eat lavishly': 0 100

Inflected forms

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