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🛂 A travel permit 🛂 To approve entry
to visa

to visa

3.6
To put an official mark in a passport to allow someone to enter or stay in a country
  • verb
  • /ˈviːzə/
  • Formal
translation icon : visar
  • You must have your passport visaed before traveling to that country.

Examples

  • The official carefully visaed each passport before handing it back to the traveler.

  • The consulate refused to visa his passport without additional documentation.

  • They visaed my passport yesterday.

  • Can you visa this document for me?

  • The consulate refused to visa his passport without additional documentation.

  • You must have your passport visaed before traveling to that country.

  • The official carefully visaed each passport before handing it back to the traveler.

Compounds

prisoner visa
  • Formal
7.3

Permission that lets a person in prison enter or stay in a country

Surface Forms

visa infinitive
visaed past
visaed past participle
visaging present participle
visas third person singular

Etymology

Visa as a verb comes from the same Latin videre 'to see' and kept the idea of 'marking as seen'. So to visa a passport is to officially 'see' and stamp it to allow someone to enter a country.