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issue
/ˈɪʃ(j)u/
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What does issue mean?
noun
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
More meanings (44)
noun
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- (figuratively) The entire set of something; all of something.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly
- The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly
- (obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
- (archaic) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
- (historical) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
- (archaic) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
- (historical, rare) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
- (obsolete, rare) Any action or deed performed by a person.
- (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
- (obsolete) A sewer.
- (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
- (archaic) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
- (historical) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- (obsolete, rare) A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.
- (obsolete) The end of any action or process.
- (obsolete) The end of any period of time.
- (archaic) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
- (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
- (archaic, figuratively) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
- (archaic, figuratively) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
- (derogatory) A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.
verb
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To deliver for use.
- To deliver by authority.
- (archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪʃ(j)u/
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Before Kulan Tith could issue the commands that would initiate the investigation a handsome young officer stepped forward and addressed his jeddak.
The parts being thus distributed to the leaders, they commenced the first assault, of which the reader has already heard the issue.
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Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not being gracious, than they are in losing them when they have approved their virtues.
She interrupted with a suppressed fire of which either love or anger seemed an equally possible issue, “Do you love me now?”
“I shouldn’t care, I should leave off,” said Ben, with a sense that this was an agreeable issue where grammar was concerned.