Definition of "visit" []

• To call on socially: visit friends. (verb-transitive)
• To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent: visit a museum; visited London. (verb-transitive)
• To stay with as a guest. (verb-transitive)
• To go to see in an official or professional capacity: visited the dentist; a priest visiting his parishioners. (verb-transitive)
• To go or come to: visits the bank on Fridays. (verb-transitive)

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• "I have to agree that the habit of doing a massive and expensive cleanup of the area of a visit is appalling, especially considering that the conditions will return to normal in no time at all and there will be no further efforts, rather appalling."
• "He admonished critics of the trip, which he called a visit by a long-time ally of Beijing."
• "The main reason for the visit is the beatification of Newman, the 19th century convert who was enormously influential in both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church."