issue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
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
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: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
examples: text: The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
text: And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeeres, came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the hemme of his garment.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:20:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
examples: text: For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:20:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
examples: He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
topics: law
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
Offspring: one's natural child or children.
examples: Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
examples: 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.
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
topics: law
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
Any action or deed performed by a person.
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
examples: Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
examples: The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
glosses: 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.
examples: The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
The entire set of something; all of something.
examples: The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
Any financial instrument issued by a company.
glosses: 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.
glosses: The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly
glosses: The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
A sewer.
examples: text: How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
glosses: The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
An exit from a room or building.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
glosses: The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly
examples: text: Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.
ref: 2005, James Harold Kirkup, chapter XXV, in The Evolution of Surgical Instruments, page 403:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
glosses: The action or an instance of sending something out
The production or distribution of something for general use.
examples: The uniform was standard prison issue.
glosses: The action or an instance of sending something out
The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
examples: The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The action or an instance of sending something out
The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
examples: text: Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
glosses: Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly
examples: The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
topics: law
glosses: 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.
examples: For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
glosses: Any question or situation to be resolved
Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
glosses: Any question or situation to be resolved
A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.
examples: text: She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.
glosses: 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.
glosses: The action or an instance of concluding something
The end of any action or process.
glosses: The action or an instance of concluding something
The end of any period of time.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 176:
glosses: The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly
glosses: The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
glosses: The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
glosses: The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
glosses: The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
Synonyms: sense: movement of soldiers
word: sortie
sense: movement of soldiers
word: sally
sense: movement of soldiers
english: rapid, usually mounted
translation: rapid, usually mounted
word: charge
sense: progeny
word: descendant
sense: progeny
word: fruit of one's loins
sense: progeny
word: offspring
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: at issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: back issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: bank of issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: bond issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: bread-and-butter issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: bring to issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: bring to an issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: cyberissue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: feigned issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: force an issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: force the issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: fudge the issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: general issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: genuine issue of material fact
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: GI
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: glamor issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: glamour issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: government issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: have an issue with
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: in issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: in the issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue-based
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue-blessed
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue book
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue boot
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue cigarette
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue date
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue day
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue department
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue desk
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue estoppel
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issuefic
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue house
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issueless
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issueness
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue of fact
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue of law
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue-oriented
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue-paper
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue pea
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue risk
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue roll
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue room
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue shoe
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issues of homage
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: issue tracking system
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: join issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: join in issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: kitchen table issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: make an issue of
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: make an issue out of
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: non-issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: overissue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: pocketbook issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: put on issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: put on an issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: put to issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: put to an issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: put upon issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: put upon an issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: reissue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: rights issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: shall-issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: side issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: single-issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: skill issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: social issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: special issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: standard issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: take issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: take issue with
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: take issue to
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: the whole issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: underissue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: valence issue
sense: Terms derived from issue (noun)
word: wedge issue
Related terms: exit