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Issue

noun

1.

An important question that is in dispute and must be settled. "Politicians never discuss the real issues"

2.

One of a series published periodically. Synonym: number.

3.

Some situation or event that is thought about. Synonyms: matter, subject, topic. "He had been thinking about the subject for several years" , "It is a matter for the police"

4.

The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity). Synonyms: issuance, issuing. "The last issue of penicillin was over a month ago"

5.

Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government. Synonyms: government issue, military issue.

6.

The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property. Synonyms: payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield.

7.

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon. Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, outcome, result, upshot. "His decision had depressing consequences for business" , "He acted very wise after the event"

8.

The immediate descendants of a person. Synonyms: offspring, progeny. "He died without issue"

9.

The becoming visible. Synonyms: egress, emergence.

10.

An opening that permits escape or release. Synonyms: exit, outlet, way out. "The canyon had only one issue"

11.

The act of issuing printed materials. Synonym: publication.

verb

(past & past part. issued; pres. part. issuing)

1.

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale. Synonyms: bring out, publish, put out, release.

2.

Circulate or distribute or equip with. Synonym: supply. "Supply blankets for the beds" Antonym: recall.

3.

Bring out an official document (such as a warrant).

4.

Come out of. Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, emerge, go forth. "The words seemed to come out by themselves"

5.

Make out and issue. Synonyms: cut, make out, write out. "Cut a ticket" , "Please make the check out to me"

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"Issue" Quotes from Famous Books

... perfect in their parts; but we happened to differ about some particulars, and I had a design to have given it over; 'till having my play refused by Marplay, I sent for the managers of the other house in a passion, joined issue with them, and this very evening ...

— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... the prince, flushing; "I spoke in haste, yet it was not altogether a boast, for I could challenge Gadarn to single combat, and no right-minded chief could well refuse to let the issue of the matter ...

— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne

... advocate, who had come over from Caen during the night, was an old family law-suit which the mayor of Vastville, an ambitious personage and restless busy-body, had taken pride in bringing to light again. The question at issue was a claim for some public property the effect of which would have been to strip Monsieur de Lucan of a portion of his timbered lands and to curtail materially his patrimonial estate. He had gained his suit in the lower court, but an appeal was soon to be heard, and ...

— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet

... profitable to the present beneficiaries. They thus gained wide Southern support for schools like Hampton and Tuskegee. But could this program be expected long to satisfy colored folk? And was this shifty dodging of the real issue the wisest statesmanship? No! The real question in the South is the question of the permanency of present color caste. The problem, then, of the formal training of our colored children has been strangely complicated by the strong feeling of certain persons as to ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... (Platyphyllum concavum, one of the Locustidae) is described (30. Harris, 'Insects of New England,' 1842, p. 128.) as mounting on the upper branches of a tree, and in the evening beginning "his noisy babble, while rival notes issue from the neighbouring trees, and the groves resound with the call of Katy-did-she- did the live-long night." Mr. Bates, in speaking of the European field- cricket (one of the Achetidae), says "the male has been observed to place himself in the evening at the ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

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