0 past simple and past participle of court
1 to try to please someone because you want them to join you:
2 to try to get something, especially attention or support from other people:
She courts publicity by inviting journalists to extravagant parties.
3 to risk something unpleasant, especially by behaving stupidly or carelessly:
4 to have a romantic relationship with someone that you hope to marry:
The parties both courted and intimidated delegates.
Even more incongruously it had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.
Americans of the baby boom are being courted by large numbers of marketers, not for their seemingly endless youth but for their encroaching middle age.
The manager, in turn, became something of a development celebrity, courted by a number of different donors.
These managers became power brokers, courted by vanilla merchants and timber companies.
On the contrary, it actively courted its support and welcomed the (usually nominal) involvement of senior government and court figures in its activities.
Thus, of the infected males in the field, only the largest males with the lowest parasite index courted females.
Their support was not needed, and therefore they were not courted.
