issue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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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 to 1990.
Inflected forms:
form: issues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: issues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: issuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: issued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: issued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
pos: noun
examples: The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
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.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: historical
usually
examples: He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
His Majesty, His issue, if any, and the descendants of that issue, shall not after His Majesty’s abdication have any right, title or interest in or to the succession to the Throne, and section one of the Act of Settlement shall be construed accordingly.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: archaic
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.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: historical
rare
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
examples: Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
examples: The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
usually
with-definite-article
examples: The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
examples: The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
gloss: Someone or something that flows out or comes out
pos: noun
gloss: The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly
pos: noun
gloss: The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?
gloss: The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly
pos: noun
examples: The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
gloss: The action or an instance of sending something out
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.
gloss: The action or an instance of sending something out
pos: noun
examples: Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
gloss: The action or an instance of sending something out
pos: noun
examples: The uniform was standard prison issue.
gloss: The action or an instance of sending something out
pos: noun
examples: The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
gloss: Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly
pos: noun
examples: Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
gloss: Any question or situation to be resolved
pos: noun
examples: The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
gloss: Any question or situation to be resolved
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
gloss: Any question or situation to be resolved
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
gloss: Any question or situation to be resolved
pos: noun
tags: US
plural-normally
examples: She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.
gloss: The action or an instance of concluding something
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The action or an instance of concluding something
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
figuratively
gloss: The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
figuratively
gloss: To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The water issued forth from the spring.
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
...thy sons that shall issue from thee...
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.
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 […]
gloss: To rush out, to sally forth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
gloss: To extend into, to open onto.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The road issues into the highway.
gloss: To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
gloss: To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,
Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,
That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
gloss: To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
pos: verb
gloss: To send out; to put into circulation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
gloss: To deliver for use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
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.
gloss: To deliver by authority.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The court issued a writ of mandamus.
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.
Related words: exit
Derived words: at issue
back issue
bank of issue
bond issue
bread-and-butter issue
bring to issue
bring to an issue
cyberissue
feigned issue
force an issue
force the issue
fudge the issue
general issue
genuine issue of material fact
GI
glamor issue
glamour issue
government issue
have an issue with
in issue
in the issue
issue-based
issue-blessed
issue book
issue boot
issue cigarette
issue date
issue day
issue department
issue desk
issue estoppel
issuefic
issue house
issueless
issueness
issue of fact
issue of law
issue-oriented
issue-paper
issue pea
issue risk
issue roll
issue room
issue shoe
issues of homage
issue tracking system
join issue
join in issue
kitchen table issue
make an issue of
make an issue out of
non-issue
overissue
pocketbook issue
put on issue
put on an issue
put to issue
put to an issue
put upon issue
put upon an issue
reissue
rights issue
shall-issue
side issue
single-issue
skill issue
social issue
special issue
standard issue
take issue
take issue with
take issue to
the whole issue
underissue
unit of issue
valence issue
wedge issue
issuable
issuance
issuer
misissue
nonissued
unissued
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: axma
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tökülmə
lang: Bulgarian
word: изти́чане
roman: iztíčane
lang: Bulgarian
word: изли́ване
roman: izlívane
lang: Finnish
word: vuoto
lang: Finnish
word: poistuminen
lang: French
word: sortie
lang: French
word: émission
lang: Galician
word: fluxo
lang: German
word: Ausgehen
lang: Italian
word: emissione
lang: Italian
word: fuoriuscita
lang: Portuguese
word: fluxo
lang: Russian
word: вытека́ние
roman: vytekánije
lang: Spanish
word: flujo
lang: Ukrainian
word: витіка́ння
roman: vytikánnja
lang: Finnish
word: vuoto
lang: Russian
word: излия́ние
roman: izlijánije
lang: French
word: drain
lang: Indonesian
word: insisi
lang: Spanish
word: incisión
lang: French
word: exsudat
lang: French
word: flux
lang: French
word: numéro
lang: Italian
word: emissione
lang: Persian
word: شماره
roman: šomâre
lang: Portuguese
word: emissão
lang: Portuguese
word: tiragem
lang: Spanish
word: emisión
lang: Spanish
word: envío
lang: Armenian
word: հարց
roman: harcʻ
lang: Armenian
word: խնդիր
roman: xndir
lang: Bulgarian
word: разногла́сие
roman: raznoglásie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 問題 /问题
roman: wèntí
lang: Finnish
word: kysymys
lang: Finnish
word: ongelma
lang: Finnish
word: vaihtoehto
lang: French
word: controverse
lang: French
word: polémique
lang: French
word: question
lang: French
word: point m de débat
lang: Georgian
word: საკითხი
roman: saḳitxi
lang: Indonesian
word: isu
lang: Irish
word: deacracht
lang: Italian
word: questione
lang: Middle English
word: issue
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: problem
lang: Portuguese
word: problema
lang: Portuguese
word: ponto de debate
lang: Portuguese
word: questão
lang: Russian
word: пробле́ма
roman: probléma
lang: Russian
word: вопро́с
roman: voprós
lang: Russian
word: пункт
roman: punkt
lang: Spanish
word: cuestión
lang: Spanish
word: asunto
lang: Spanish
word: torete
lang: Spanish
word: volandeque
lang: Zulu
word: indaba
lang: Bulgarian
word: получавам се
roman: polučavam se
lang: Italian
word: risultare
lang: Middle English
word: issuen
lang: Spanish
word: resultar
lang: Swedish
word: utmynna