visit

IPA: vˈɪzʌt

A single act of visiting.
(medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

(transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
(transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
(transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
(transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
(transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.

Examples of "visit" in Sentences

We will work together to make sure your visit is as short as possible.
If you are going south to the San Felipe area or beyond, a visit is always welcome.
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.
According to WWD, on Wu's schedule for his visit is a radio interview with President Ma Ying-jeou, consulting on a condominium complex in Taipei and traveling to Beijing to fete his new eyeshadow collection with Shiseido.
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.