issue

Plural: issues

Noun

• an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
  • "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"
  • "politicians never discuss the real issues"
• one of a series published periodically
  • "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room"
• some situation or event that is thought about
• the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
  • "a new issue of stamps"
  • "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago"
• supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
• the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
• the immediate descendants of a person
  • "he died without issue"
• the becoming visible
• an opening that permits escape or release
  • "the canyon had only one issue"
• the act of issuing printed materials
• The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
• A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
• The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
• The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• Offspring: one's natural child or children.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• Any action or deed performed by a person.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• 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.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• The entire set of something; all of something.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• Any financial instrument issued by a company.
• Someone or something that flows out or comes out
• 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 means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
• A sewer.
• The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
• An exit from a room or building.
• The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
• A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
• The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly
• The action or an instance of sending something out
• A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
• The action or an instance of sending something out
• The production or distribution of something for general use.
• The action or an instance of sending something out
• The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
• The action or an instance of sending something out
• The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
• Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly
• Any question or situation to be resolved
• A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
• Any question or situation to be resolved
• Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
• Any question or situation to be resolved
• A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.
• Any question or situation to be resolved
• A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
• The action or an instance of concluding something
• The end of any action or process.
• The action or an instance of concluding something
• The end of any period of time.
• The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly
• The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
• The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
• The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
• The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
• The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

Verb

Verb Forms: issued, issuing, issues

• To come forth or emerge; to send out.
• prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
• circulate or distribute or equip with
  • "issue a new uniform to the children"
• bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
• come out of
  • "Water issued from the hole in the wall"
• make out and issue
• 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 end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
• 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.

Examples

• He watched his carefully crafted word ISSUE from his tile rack onto the triple-word score.
• She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.
• The court issued a writ of mandamus.
• The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
• The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
• The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
• The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
• The road issues into the highway.
• The water issued forth from the spring.

Synonyms

bring out, come forth, come out, consequence, cut, effect, egress, emerge, emergence, event, exit, go forth, government issue, issuance, issuing, make out, matter, military issue, number, offspring, outcome, outlet, payoff, proceeds, progeny, publication, publish, put out, release, result, return, subject, supply, take, takings, topic, upshot, way out, write out, yield, begive, charge, descendant, fruit of one's loins, sally, sortie

Antonyms

recall

Related Words

exit