VISA

visa

(noun) an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it

visa

(verb) approve officially; “The list of speakers must be visaed”

visa

(verb) provide (a passport) with a visa

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

visa (plural visas)

A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

Verb

visa (third-person singular simple present visas, present participle visaing, simple past and past participle visaed)

(transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).

Anagrams

• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias

Noun

VISA (uncountable)

(medicine, microbiology) Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.

Anagrams

• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias

Etymology

Coined by the company's founder, Dee Hock, who believed that the word was instantly recognizable in many languages and that it denoted universal acceptance.

Proper noun

Visa

(banking) A credit card company.

Alternative spelling of visa

Noun

Visa (plural Visas)

(banking) Visa card

(banking) credit card

Anagrams

• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias

Source: Wiktionary


Vi"sa, n. Etym: [F.]

Definition: See Vis.

Vi"sa, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visaed; p. pr. & vb. n. Visaing.]

Definition: To indorse, after examination, with the word visé, as a passport; to visé.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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