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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
visa
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an entry visa (=a visa which allows you to enter a country)
▪ Visitors to the United States must first obtain an entry visa.
issue a passport/permit/visa etc
▪ The US State Department issues millions of passports each year.
transit visa
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
temporary
▪ The law limits jobs that can be filled by workers on temporary visas to no more than 65, 000 a year.
tourist
▪ Persistent, Mitchell then applied for a tourist visa, but this too, not surprisingly, was rejected.
■ NOUN
application
▪ There they are tricked into handing over their passports under the ruse that the men require them to process their visa applications.
entry
▪ Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times.
▪ The need to obtain an entry visa from an embassy often situated far away could be dangerous and could therefore hinder departure.
exit
▪ There are also reports of exit visas being refused.
▪ If I were arrested, that would be the end of every-thing the exit visa, the certificate.
▪ Unfortunately he tells me his exit visa is time-expired.
▪ Yet even if he did win a new homeland, there is always the matter of a Soviet exit visa.
▪ The reissue of an exit visa took two hours and a thousand riyals.
▪ His Soviet exit visa would eventually expire.
▪ Would it be a good idea, perhaps, to introduce exit visas?
requirement
▪ About 3,500 Kurds came to Britain last May and June, before a visa requirement was hurried in to stem an influx.
▪ They signed two agreements on improving economic co-operation and removing visa requirements for diplomats and businessmen.
▪ New visa requirements mean 206 people, including a desperately ill girl, won't be allowed in.
■ VERB
apply
▪ Persistent, Mitchell then applied for a tourist visa, but this too, not surprisingly, was rejected.
▪ You applied for a visa in Helsinki and had it in two days.
deny
▪ He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa.
get
▪ But they were held up by complications in getting visas.
▪ I took all my shots and got my visa.
▪ Naturally, they made getting my visa as difficult as possible, even now after all the changes.
▪ How did he get a visa and a passport?
grant
▪ Kenan's just been granted a 6-month visa, 4 months after the Nix's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia.
issue
▪ The Interior Ministry has been tipped off about companies issuing fake visas.
▪ Under the agreement, two nominally private organizations were established to issue visas and represent the interests of the two governments.
obtain
▪ Citizens are free to travel around the country and obtain visas to venture overseas.
▪ Pond then took Olajuwon to see about obtaining a visa.
▪ The need to obtain an entry visa from an embassy often situated far away could be dangerous and could therefore hinder departure.
▪ Members of Congress have questioned the State Department about how Wang obtained a visa and whether officials knew of his arms background.
refuse
▪ Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times.
▪ On our third visit I was told the appeal had been turned down, Loi was still refused a visa.
▪ Mae was refused a visa and what looked like a short hiccup developed into a long-drawn-out campaign.
require
▪ However, please remember that some holidays require visas or inoculations, which may take several weeks to obtain.
▪ Other items which employees require include entry/exit visas, work permits and details of local laws and working conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His visa expired on June 30, 1972.
▪ However, please remember that some holidays require visas or inoculations, which may take several weeks to obtain.
▪ Hurley had promised him a visa, too.
▪ I wondered how they would arrange my visa for Riga, but I didn't ask.
▪ It is your responsibility to be in possession of a valid passport and any visa which may be necessary.
▪ Members of Congress have questioned the State Department about how Wang obtained a visa and whether officials knew of his arms background.
▪ We waited to have our visas minutely examined by security police with green uniforms and humorless expressions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visa

Visa \Vi"sa\, n. [F.] See Vis?.

Visa

Visa \Vi"sa\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visaed; p. pr. & vb. n. Visaing.] To indorse, after examination, with the word vis['e], as a passport; to vis['e].

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
visa

1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Modern Latin charta visa "verified paper," literally "paper that has been seen," from fem. past participle of Latin videre "to see" (see vision). Earlier visé (1810), from French past participle of viser "to examine, view." The credit card of this name was introduced 1976, replacing BankAmericard.

Wiktionary
visa

n. A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited. vb. (context transitive dated English) To endorse (a passport, etc.).

WordNet
visa
  1. n. an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it

  2. v. provide (a passport) with a visa

  3. approve officially; "The list of speakers must be visaed"

Wikipedia
Visa

Visa or VISA may refer to:

Visa (film)

Visa is a 1983 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Balu Kiriyath and produced by NP Abu. The film stars Mohanlal, Mammootty, T. R. Omana and Sathaar in lead roles. The film had musical score by Jithin Shyam.

Visa (album)

Visa is a 2014 album by Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti under the name Vladislav Delay. Ripatti conceived and created the album in two weeks after being denied entry to the United States for a planned tour. It was released on his own label Ripatti on November 10, 2014.

"Viisari" appeared on the soundtrack of the 2015 film The Revenant.

Usage examples of "visa".

The final visa approval had come through only the day before, the fifth of June, and just hours later Mondschein had boarded the Aero Alvarado flight that would take him in a single soaring supersonic arc nonstop from Zurich to his long-lost homeland on the west coast of South America.

The police had confiscated my passport, visa, and all the aquamanile documents.

Jacob Ascher happens to be president of the Jewish Council of Berne, a rich man who hounds all the legations for refugee visas.

Caesar ex captivis cognovit, cum magnae manus eo convenissent, multitudine navium perterritae, quae cum annotinis privatisque quas sui quisque commodi fecerat amplius octingentae uno erant visae tempore, a litore discesserant ac se in superiora loca abdiderant.

In East Berlin, Davina and Harrington would be contacted, outfitted with new identities and passports, with visas for entry into Russia.

Miri was formally introduced to Edger, Handler, Selector, and Sheather, each by his abbreviated, visa name.

In Richmond, Des Moines, Salt Lake City, and Denver, Visa card numbers were queried.

Holly had painted Pex and Chips with a stamp generally used by customs and immigration for invisible visas.

Looking legal enough, their passports carried visas from the Terran Thearchy granting them the status of student guests with permission for an indeterminate visit.

Callicrate, amore mei et timore regine affecto, nos per magicam abduxit per vias horribiles ubi est puteus ille profundus, cujus juxta aditum jacebat senioris philosophi cadaver, et advenientibus monstravit flammam Vite erectam, instar columne voluntantis, voces emittentem quasi tonitrus: tunc per ignem impetu nocivo expers transiit et jam ipsa sese formosior visa est.

He folded the deposit slip into his wallet, took out the Carl Mankin Visa card, signaled to the waiter, and then handed the card to him when the waiter came to the table.

If anyone had Visa card number 0087-4412-8703, made out to Carl Mankin, this person would be held.

Visa himself and get a drop-everything computer check made on that Mankin number.

I know who accepts Visa cards from his customers, give him this Mankin number, and get him to call Visa for a background check.

Leaphorn told Goddard what he knew about the Carl Mankin Visa card, how it had been recovered and how quickly control of the case had shifted from Farmington to Washington.