visaless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English visa Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English visaless From visa + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a visa.
[T]he mental strain and the prospect of travelling round and round the Mediterranean on that Lloyd, visaless and penniless, till she was broken up and our bones discovered, had left us exhausted.
1928, Robert Byron, “The Pursuit of Culture”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 213:1962, Joseph B. Schechtman, Postwar Population Transfers in Europe: 1945-1955, University of Philadelphia Press, Chapter 13, p. 350, On October 6, flooded by visaless emigrants, the Turkish government again closed the border […]
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(not-comparable) Without requiring a visa; visa-free.
Nowadays, the atoll's growing population survives on a depleted trust fund from the Compact of Free Association with the US, but payouts come to just $100 per person, according to locals. […] Those who can afford it have taken advantage of the Compact's visaless travel benefits and migrated to Hawaii.
2015 July 3, Coleen Jose, Kim Wall, Jan Hendrik Hinzel, “This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste—and it's leaking”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
Translations (6)
de visumfrei (without requiring a visa) · pl bezwizowy (without requiring a visa) · sv visumlös (without a visa) · de visumlos (without a visa) · pl bezwizowy (without a visa) · sv visumfri (without requiring a visa)