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VISA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does visa mean?
• VISA (noun)
The noun VISA has 1 sense:
1. an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it
Familiarity information: VISA used as a noun is very rare.
• VISA (verb)
The verb VISA has 2 senses:
1. provide (a passport) with a visa
2. approve officially
Familiarity information: VISA used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("visa" is a kind of...):
countenance; endorsement; imprimatur; indorsement; sanction; warrant (formal and explicit approval)
Holonyms ("visa" is a part of...):
passport (a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country)
Derivation:
visa (provide (a passport) with a visa)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it visas Past simple: visaed
Past participle: visaed
-ing form: visaing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide (a passport) with a visa
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "visa" is one way to...):
endorse; indorse (sign as evidence of legal transfer)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
visa (an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Approve officially
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The list of speakers must be visaed
Hypernyms (to "visa" is one way to...):
approve; O.K.; okay; sanction (give sanction to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
In 2001-2002, when West-European entry visas for Romanian nationals were waived, the Romanian PGR dropped from -0.11% to a dramatic -2.66%.
(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)
Legal matters, international relationships, and any kind of situation involving immigration, passports, visas, or green cards will have joyful resolutions.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The full moon of November 12 brings an emphasis on distant travel and/or international relationships and also immigration matters, bringing up such subjects as a green card, passport, visa, and customs rules.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Watch for a breakthrough regarding foreign travel and international relationships, immigration matters, or those involving a passport, visa, or green card.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Immigration, passport, visa, and green card matters come under this same ninth house because of its link to international travel and relationships.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This area of your chart also rules international relationships, citizenship matters, immigration, passports, visas, and green cards.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Alternatively, you might finally have your immigration interview or receive your green card, visa, or citizenship in a foreign country.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The Sun is in your ninth house of international relationships, immigration (visa, green card, citizenship), legal matters, the media, and academia.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The ninth house rules distant and foreign travel and international relationships, immigration (including green cards, visas, passports, and citizenship), publishing and broadcasting projects, legal matters, and academic pursuits.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They will meet in Capricorn, your ninth house of foreign people and places, publishing and broadcasting, legal matters, immigration, passport, visa, green card, and all topics related to higher education (college and beyond).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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