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visé

/viːˈzeɪ/

visé noun: visa.

Noun

visé (plural visés)

  1. (archaic) visa.
    • A minister cannot make any direct charge for giving or viséing a passport (though his porter always takes care to ask for something), whereas the Russian consul always charges a dollar banco for every visé.1839, A Hand-book for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Russia, page 117
    • […] promising her that he would not print a word to which her approval should not be expressly given. She should countersign every page before it went to press, and none should leave the house without her visé.1888 September 29, Henry James, “[The Modern Warning.] Chapter VI.”, in The Aspern Papers; Louisa Pallant; The Modern Warning, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC

Verb

visé (third-person singular simple present visés, present participle viséing, simple past and past participle viséed or viséd)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa.
    • […] unable to be abroad after ten at night, or to carry a gun, or to remove into another district without a written pass which must be visé on reaching a police-station.1872, Janet Millett, An Australian Parsonage, Ch. XI
    • Russian consuls everywhere have been instructed to visé passports of geologists presenting membership cards, which will also facilitate matters at the frontier.1897, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 51, June, "World's Geologists at St. Petersburg"

Proper noun capitalized: Visé

Visé

  1. A municipality in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

Forms of visé

Noun
pluralvisés
alternative formvise
Verb
third-person singular presentvisés
present participleviséing
past participleviséed
pastviséed
past participleviséd
pastviséd

Origin of visé

Borrowed from French visé, past participle of viser (“to issue with a visa”).

Words that rhyme with visé

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Questions about visé

What does visé mean?
Visé means visa.
What part of speech is visé?
Visé can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce visé?
Visé is pronounced /viːˈzeɪ/.
What is the plural of visé?
The plural of visé is visés.

Words near visé in the dictionary

  1. visuovestibular
  2. Visuvabharathy
  3. Visviri
  4. Viswanathan
  5. Viswanathans
  6. visé
  7. viséd
  8. viséed
  9. viséing
  10. visés
  11. VIT

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