Pass Opportunity Invitation Sth I Meaning Choose Accept

Meaning: If you pass up an opportunity or an invitation, you choose not to take the opportunity or accept the invitation.

• pass up sth Bill passed up the opportunity to study music in a top university. He formed his own band instead.
  
  
• pass sth up I had to pass the invitation up as I already had an appointment at that time.
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with pass up: invitation, chance, opportunity, window of opportunity, shot (at doing something)