issue

noun41

1. •
   a problem or question that people need to discuss and find an answer to

   • Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
2. •
   Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.

   • For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
3. •
   A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.

   • Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
4. •
   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.

   • The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
5. •
   [usually plural] A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.

   • She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.
6. •
   The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
7. •
   The action or an instance of sending something out.

   • The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
8. •
   The production or distribution of something for general use.

   • Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
9. •
   The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.

   • The uniform was standard prison issue.
10. •
    The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.

    • The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
11. •
    Any financial instrument issued by a company.

    • The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
12. •
    A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.

    • The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
13. •
    Offspring: one's natural child or children.

    • He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
14. •
    Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.

    • Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
15. •
    The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome.

    • The eternal happiness or misery of the departed saint depended on the issue of this contest between the powers of good and evil for the possession of his mortal remains. — 1911
16. •
    The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
17. •
    The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.

    • The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
18. •
    The entire set of something; all of something.

    • The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
19. •
    Someone or something that flows out or comes out
20. •
    The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out.
21. •
    The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
22. •
    (historical) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.

    • Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions. — 2005
23. •
    (rare, historical) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
24. •
    The action or an instance of concluding something
25. •
    (figurative, no longer used) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
26. •
    (no longer used) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
27. •
    (no longer used) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
28. •
    (no longer used) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
29. •
    (figurative, no longer used) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
30. •
    (no longer used) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

    • For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. — 1611
31. •
    (no longer used) A sewer.
32. •
    (no longer used) An exit from a room or building.

    • How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue? — 1881
33. •
    (no longer used) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
34. •
    (no longer used) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.

    • 3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.
35. •
    (no longer used) The end of any action or process.
36. •
    (no longer used) The end of any period of time.
37. •
    (no longer used, rare) A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.
38. •
    (no longer used) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
39. •
    (no longer used, rare) Any action or deed performed by a person.
40. •
    (no longer used) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
41. •
    (figurative, no longer used) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.

verb9

1. •
   To send out; to put into circulation.

   • The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
2. •
   To deliver for use.

   • The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
3. •
   To deliver by authority.

   • The court issued a writ of mandamus.
4. •
   To turn out in a certain way, to result in.

   • But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins. — 2007
5. •
   To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.

   • The water issued forth from the spring.
   • The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
6. •
   To rush out, to sally forth.

   • The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
7. •
   To extend into, to open onto.

   • The road issues into the highway.
8. •
   To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
9. •
   (no longer used) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.

   • And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Pursude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may see him issue Conquerour. — 1587

noun1

1. •
   (offensive) A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.