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Visa   /vˈizə/   Listen
noun
Visa  n.  A written stamp or document obtained by a citizen of one country from the proper authorities of another country, denoting that that person's passport has been examined, and that the person who bears the visa is permitted to enter or pass through the second country. It is usually in the form of an endorsement on the passport of the person seeking permission to enter a foreign country; however, in some cases a separate document is issued that does not create a mark in the passport. Same as Vise.



verb
Visa  v. t.  (past & past part. visaed; pres. part. visaing)  To indorse, after examination, with the word visé, as a passport; to visé.



proper noun
Visa, Visa card  n.  A credit card issued with the Trade Name "Visa" on it; as, he charged the dinner to his Visa. Visa is a competitor of Master Card, Discover, MBNA, and American Express, and other credit card companies.






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"Visa" Quotes from Famous Books



... without a passport, for accidents may always happen and even so near home as Paris identity papers may be useful. But I had never before sought a special visa. ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith

... go straight from this office. You've a passport, I suppose; you won't need a visa for France, and from there you can find means to slip over. Have you got money on you? [Dancy nods]. We will see what we can do to ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... is the case here)—"Arrest him at once." Why and wherefore, I 70 don't concern myself, but my instructions amount to this: if Signor Luigi leaves home tonight for Vienna—well and good, the passport deposed with us for our visa is really for his own use, they have misinformed the Office, and he means well; but let him stay over tonight—there 75 has been the pretense we suspect, the accounts of his corresponding and holding intelligence with the Carbonari are correct, we arrest him at once, ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... Account of several Engagements for Observing of Tydes. Some Suggestions for Remedies against Cold. A Relation of an uncommon accident in two Aged Persons. An Account of Two Books, I. ISMAELIS BULLIALDI ad Astronomos Monita duo: Primum, de Stella Nova, in Collo Ceti ante aliquot annos visa. Alterum, de Nebulosa Stella in Andromedae Cinguli parte Borea, ante biennium iterum orta. II. ENTRETIENS sur les vies & sur les Ouvrages des plus excellens Peintres, antients ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various

... totum corpus in aquam mersit. Perseus dum circum litus volat, reditum eius exspectabat. Mare autem interea undique sanguine inficitur. Post breve tempus belua rursus caput sustulit; mox tamen a Perseo ictu graviore vulnerata est. Tum iterum se in undas mersit, neque postea visa est. ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.


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