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Visa
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- 1 A credit card company.
"Got PayPal or Visa, whatever'll please ya As long as I've got the dough."
- 2 Alternative spelling of visa. alt-of, alternative
- 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."
- 2 A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.
- 3 Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 4 an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it wordnet
- 5 A credit card.
- 1 To endorse (a passport, etc.). dated, transitive
""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.”"
- 2 approve officially wordnet
- 3 provide (a passport) with a visa wordnet
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.
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.
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.
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.
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