Issue

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute.
  • noun. A matter of public concern.
  • noun. A misgiving, objection, or complaint.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A problem or difficulty.
  • noun. A personal problem.
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  • noun. The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by a business, government, or organization.
  • noun. An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by a business, government, or organization.
  • noun. A single copy of a periodical.
  • noun. A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.
  • noun. Proceeds from estates or fines.
  • noun. Something proceeding from a specified source.
  • noun. A culminating point leading to a decision.
  • noun. A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.
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  • noun. The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out.
  • noun. A place of egress; an outlet.
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  • noun. A discharge, as of blood or pus.
  • noun. A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.
  • noun. Offspring; progeny.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To flow, go, or come out: synonym: appear.
  • intransitive verb. To proceed from a source; emerge or come forth: synonym: stem.
  • intransitive verb. To have as a consequence; result.
  • intransitive verb. To accrue as proceeds or profit.
  • intransitive verb. To be born or be descended.
  • intransitive verb. To be circulated or published.
  • intransitive verb. To circulate or distribute in an official capacity.
  • intransitive verb. To publish.
  • intransitive verb. To pour forth or send out; emit.
  • idiom. (at issue) In question; in dispute.
  • idiom. (at issue) At variance; in disagreement.
  • idiom. (join issue) To enter into controversy.
  • idiom. (join issue) To submit an issue for decision.
  • idiom. (take issue) To take an opposing point of view; disagree.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pass from within outward; go or pass out; go forth.
  • To proceed as progeny; be derived or descended; spring.
  • To be produced as an effect or result; grow or accrue; arise; proceed: as, rents and profits issuing from land.
  • To come to a result or conclusion; reach an end; close; terminate: with in before an object: as, we know not how the cause will issue; the negotiations issued in a firm peace.
  • In law: To come to a question in fact or law on which the parties join in resting the decision of the cause.
  • To go forth as authoritative or binding: said of an official instrument, as a mandamus, proclamation, or license.
  • To send out; deliver for use; deliver authoritatively; emit; put into circulation: as, to issue provisions; to issue a writ or precept; to issue bank-notes or a book.
  • To bring to an issue; terminate; settle.
  • noun. A going, passing, or flowing out; passage from within outward; an outgoing, outflow, or flux.
  • noun. Means of egress; an opening or outlet; a passage leading outward; a vent.
  • noun. Specifically, in medicine, a vent for the passage of blood or morbid matter; a running sore, accidental or made as a counter-irritant.
  • noun. An outcome; a result; the product of any process or action; that which occurs as a consequence; ultimate event or result; as, a happy issue of one's labors; the issues of our actions are hidden from us.
  • Word Usage
    "I do not see how it's a racial issue: it's a *people issue*, one of the many many Stupid Human Tricks available to us all."
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    come out  debouch  escape  fall  fallout  
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    reissue  tissue  
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    feigned  general  
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    issued  issues  issuing