visa

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   It took a while for me to get a Chinese visa.

2. 2
   verb

   to approve officially

   The list of speakers must be visaed.

3. 3
   verb

   to provide with a visa

   The United States visas thousands of students each year.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   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.”

6. 6
   name

   A credit card company.

   Got PayPal or Visa, whatever'll please ya As long as I've got the dough.

7. 7
   name

   Alternative spelling of visa.

8. 8
   noun

   A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.

Etymology

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.