in a place for a short time in order to do something
The local hoteliers did not wish to appear niggardly to a visiting monarch.
She suggested that at our next meeting we invite a visiting speaker.
Examples of 'visiting' in a sentence
visiting
Dr Mackay was still conducting allergen tests when the social worker, Mrs Murray, started visiting.
Scarlett Thomas GOING OUT (2002)
As far as he was concerned she was a visiting potentate; he was afraid of making a mistake.
Clive Barker GALILEE (2002)
All related terms of 'visiting'
visit
If you visit someone, you go to see them and spend time with them.
visiting card
→ calling card
visiting team
the team who have gone to place to play a game
visiting time
→ another name for visiting hours
visiting hours
the times when people are allowed into an institution such as a hospital to visit patients
visiting nurse
(in the US) a registered nurse employed by a community , hospital , etc, to visit and nurse sick people in their homes or to promote public health
visiting rights
the right to visit someone
visiting terms
a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
visiting fireman
A visiting fireman is an important visitor, who gets special treatment.
visiting firemen
a visitor whose presence is noticed because he or she is an important figure, a lavish spender , etc
visiting professor
a professor invited to teach in a college or university other than his or her own, often in another country , for a certain period , such as a term or year
visiting teacher
a teacher who visits and teaches sick or disabled children
visit with
If you visit with someone, you go to see them and spend time with them.
calling card
A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.