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Definition of Issue

Verb: issue i-shoo

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
"issue a magazine or newspaper";
- publish, bring out, put out, release
Circulate, distribute or equip with
"issue a new uniform to the children";
- supply
Bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
Come out of
"Water issued from the hole in the wall";
- emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress
Fill in and give as payment
"issue a check";
- write out, make out, cut

Noun: issue i-shoo

An important question that is in dispute and must be settled
"the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"
One of a series published periodically
"she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room";
- number
Some situation or event that is thought about
"he kept drifting off the issue";
- topic, subject, matter
The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
"a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago";
- issuing, issuance
(military) supplies (as food, clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
- military issue, government issue
The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
"the average issue was about 5%";
- return, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
"his decision had depressing issues for business";
- consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, upshot
The immediate descendants of a person
"he died without issue";
- offspring, progeny
The becoming visible
"not a day's difference between the issue of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins";
- emergence, egress
An opening that permits escape or release
"the canyon had only one issue";
- exit, outlet, way out
The act of issuing printed materials
- publication