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Visa

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

A credit card company.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A credit card company.

    Got PayPal or Visa, whatever'll please ya As long as I've got the dough.

    Paying with Visa abroad uses the same high-tech, anti-fraud systems as at home, so your payments are safe wherever you are.

  2. 2

    Variant of visaAlternative spelling of visa.

Etymology

Coined by the company's founder, Dee Hock, who believed that the word was instantly recognizable in many languages and that it denoted universal acceptance.

noun

  1. 1

    A credit card issued by the credit card company Visa.

  2. 2

    A credit card.

Forms

plural
Visas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).