issue

plural issues

1. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
   1. obsoletegovernmentA movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

      Synonyms: sortie, sally, charge

   2. medicineThe outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.

      The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.

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      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.

      1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:20

2. Someone or something that flows out or comes out
   1. archaicmedicineThe 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, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:20

   2. historicalusuallylawOffspring: one's natural child or children.

      He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.

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      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.

      1936, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(2)”, in His Majesty’s Declaration of Abdication Act 1936ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 2

   3. figurativelyProgeny: all one's lineal descendants.

      Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.

      Synonyms: descendant, fruit of one's loins, offspring

   4. figurativelyobsoleteA race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
   5. archaicThe 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.

   6. historicalrarelawIncome derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
   7. obsoleteThe entrails of a slaughtered animal.
   8. obsoleterareAny action or deed performed by a person.
   9. obsoleteLuck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
   10. mediaA single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.

       Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.

   11. 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.

   12. figurativelyusuallywith definite articleThe entire set of something; all of something.

       The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.

   13. businessAny financial instrument issued by a company.

       The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.

   14. The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
3. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly
4. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
   1. obsoleteA sewer.
5. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
   1. obsoleteAn 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, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

   2. archaicA confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
6. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly

   The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.

7. The action or an instance of sending something out
   1. historicalmedicineA 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, James Harold Kirkup, chapter XXV, in The Evolution of Surgical Instruments, page 403

   2. The production or distribution of something for general use.

      Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.

   3. The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.

      The uniform was standard prison issue.

   4. businessThe action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.

      The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.

8. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly

   Please stand by. We are having technical issues.

9. Any question or situation to be resolved
   1. lawA 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.

   2. figurativelyAnything 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. obsoleterareA difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.
   4. USplural normallyA 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.

10. The action or an instance of concluding something
    1. obsoleteThe end of any action or process.
    2. obsoleteThe end of any period of time.
11. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly

    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, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 176

12. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
    1. archaicThe result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
    2. obsoleteThe result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
13. archaicfigurativelyThe action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
14. archaicfigurativelyThe action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

present singular third person issues · participle present issuing · participle past issued · past issued

1. intransitiveTo flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.

   The water issued forth from the spring.

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   The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.

   ...thy sons that shall issue from thee...

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings xx:18

   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 […]

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

2. intransitiveTo rush out, to sally forth.

   The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.

3. intransitiveTo extend into, to open onto.

   The road issues into the highway.

4. intransitiveTo 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, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 171

5. archaicintransitiveTo 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.

   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

6. lawTo come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
7. transitiveTo send out; to put into circulation.

   The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.

8. transitiveTo deliver for use.

   The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.

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   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.

   2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN

9. transitiveTo deliver by authority.

   The court issued a writ of mandamus.

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   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.

   2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian

plural Issues

1. derogatoryA Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.