issue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɪʃuː/
enpr: ĭsho͞o
note: yod-coalescence
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɪsjuː/
enpr: ĭsyo͞o
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɪʃjuː/
enpr: ĭshyo͞o
enpr: ĭsh(y)o͞o
ipa: /ˈɪʃ(j)u/
ipa: /ˈɪʃʉː/
ipa: [ˈɪʃɪ̈ɯ]
enpr: ĭsyo͞o
enpr: ĭsh(y)o͞o
ipa: /ˈɪsjuː/
ipa: /ˈɪʃ(j)uː/
enpr: ĭs(y)ū
enpr: ĭshū
ipa: /ˈɪs(j)ɪʊ̯/
ipa: /ˈɪʃɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -ɪʃju
rhymes: -ɪʃu
Forms: form: issues
form: issuing
form: issued
form: issued
Etymology: From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”).
The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates back to 1990.
Senses: examples: text: The water issued forth from the spring.
text: The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
text: ...thy sons that shall issue from thee...
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings xx:18:
text: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.
text: A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
examples: text: The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
glosses: To rush out, to sally forth.
examples: text: The road issues into the highway.
glosses: To extend into, to open onto.
examples: text: But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
ref: 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 171:
glosses: To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
examples: text: And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,
Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,
That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
glosses: To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
topics: law
glosses: To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
examples: text: The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
glosses: To send out; to put into circulation.
examples: text: The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
text: Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
ref: 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
glosses: To deliver for use.
examples: text: The court issued a writ of mandamus.
text: Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
ref: 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To deliver by authority.
Synonyms: sense: to give out
word: begive
Derived terms: issuable
issuance
issuer
misissue
nonissued
overissue
underissue
unissued