visaless

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visa +‎ -less

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visaless (not comparable)

  1. Without a visa.
    • 1928, Robert Byron, chapter 14, in The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece[1]:
      [] the 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.
    • 1962, Joseph B. Schechtman, Postwar Population Transfers in Europe: 1945-1955, University of Philadelphia Press, Chapter 13, p. 350,[2]
      On October 6, flooded by visaless emigrants, the Turkish government again closed the border []
  2. Without requiring a visa; visa-free.
    • 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:
      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.

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