usage of "challenge"

[lost_soul]

Hi, everybody

Please, imagine the situation: I need to make some improvements to the CPU and I want some exprets to come up with ideas for those improvements. Can I say this phrase: "I offered the challenge to the exprets" meaning that I compelled/ordered/asked them to generate ideas?

Thanks !
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Alex

A native speaker of Russian

[Mister Micawber]

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compelled/ordered/asked -- these are quite different in meaning, one from another.

'offer the challenge' is merely a way of saying 'ask'.
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Canadian-American native speaker
who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
ESL cafe: Interview with Mister Micawber