Visa

//ˈviːzə// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A credit card company.

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

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of visa. alt-of, alternative
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.
  3. 3
    Initialism of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  4. 4
    an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it wordnet
  5. 5
    A credit card.
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    approve officially wordnet
  3. 3
    provide (a passport) with a visa wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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.

Etymology 4

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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