The phrase "a trial visit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary visit to assess a place, service, or situation before making a commitment.
Example: "Before deciding on the new school, we scheduled a trial visit to see the facilities and meet the teachers."
Alternatives: "a test visit" or "an introductory visit".
So when Jacob, a widowed Kansas farmer, receives just such a reply from Sarah, a single woman in Maine, he eventually invites her for a trial visit with him and his two children, Caleb and Anna.
We brought her to California on a trial visit.
"It's only a visit, it doesn't commit you to anything" is the film's opening line, but it's enough to tell us that nervous middle-aged son Jacques Joël Delsautt), who is about to move to Chicago, is taking his father, Edmond (Bouquet), on a trial visit to a nursing home.
As a safety precaution, three measures are recorded for all recruited participants at all trial visits: a point of care ionised calcium test, a laboratory serum corrected calcium test and a laboratory urinary calcium to creatinine ratio test.
On all trial visits a clinical examination and recording of any adverse events including hypoglycaemia will be performed.
Both are nonplussed when the "child" showing up for a one-day trial visit is 14-year-old Sam (Ke Huy Quan), a Vietnamese orphan whose father was an American soldier.
After a week-long trial visit, Lydia moved in and was told from the get-go she was a member of the family.
The dose can be adjusted at all trial visits.
At all trial visits, morbidity (including vital signs) and breastfeeding practices since the previous visit were assessed.
All patients were from one academic setting and all trial visits were conducted in usual clinical care.
She and the other employees were permitted for the first time into the previously off-limits space yesterday -- the courtyard between World Financial Center office towers 3 and 4 -- in an in-house, trial visit to five reopened stores.
