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visa¹

  • /ˈviː.zə/ US, UK

Rhymes with -iːzə

Where it comes from

From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta vīsa (“paper that has been seen”) from feminine perfect passive of Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, vista.

noun visas

  1. A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. I came on a six-month tourist visa.

verb visas · visaing · visaed

  1. dated, transitive To endorse (a passport, etc.). "Let me tell you that I am going to spit into that coffee! Yes, and if you do not get me my passport visaed this very minute, I shall take it to Monsignor myself.”

Visa²

Where it comes from

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

  1. A credit card company. Got PayPal or Visa, whatever'll please ya As long as I've got the dough.
  2. alternative Alternative spelling of visa.visa

noun Visas

  1. A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.
  2. A credit card.

VISA³

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus.vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus

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