Visa
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈviːzə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Visa is a noun meaning A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
Meaning
A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
More Meanings
- (transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).
Example Sentences
I came on a six-month tourist visa.
"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.”
However, I couldn't continue by land to Georgia, as I would have liked: Russia still maintains its crazy, Sovietesque visa regulations, which makes getting a transit visa extremely difficult and extremely expensive.
The impact would be smaller in the immediate term given that the Trump proclamation allows existing visa holders to remain in the US, but still, at MSK around 100 new scientific and medical trainees this year would not be allowed to commence their research.
Word Forms
- visas
- visaing
- visaed
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