visa

USVEE-zuh/ˈvizə/

Pluralvisas

Verbvisas, visaing, visaed

2 meanings of visa

1
nouncountable
An official document that lets you enter or leave a country.
Like a special ticket that gives you permission to go into a country.
She applied for a visa before her trip to Japan.
Most tourists need a visa to enter the country for work.
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2
verbdatedtransitive
To stamp or mark a passport so someone is officially allowed to travel.
Like a teacher signing a note that says you are allowed to leave class.
Clerks at the consulate visa hundreds of passports every week.
"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.”
1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The GamblerHere, visaed means stamped so the passport is officially approved for travel.
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Origin

From French visa, from Latin charta visa meaning "paper that has been seen," from the Latin word videre, "to see."