Usually means: Calls upon for authority, support.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. invokes: Merriam-Webster
  2. invokes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. invokes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Invokes, invokes: Wordnik
  5. invokes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. invokes: Wiktionary
  7. invokes: Dictionary.com
  8. invokes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. invokes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. invokes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. invokes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invokes: Encyclopedia

(Note: See invoke as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (invoke)

verb:  (transitive) To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
verb:  (transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
verb:  (transitive, nautical, of one ship) To call another ship.
verb:  (transitive) To call to mind (something) for some purpose.
verb:  (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
verb:  (transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
verb:  (transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
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