arises

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular present of arise.

   The question arises whenever a contract lacks a clear end date.

   An opportunity rarely arises twice under the same conditions.

   Note

   The form a single subject takes in the present: a problem arises, it arises, the need arises. Every meaning behind it is intransitive, so no object follows. Things arise, but nobody arises them. The same spelling also serves two unrelated nouns, the obsolete "rising" plural and the Cockney slang plural. Its position in the sentence tells them apart.

2. 2
   nounobsolete

   Plural of arise. Obsolete.

   Note

   A plural of a noun that has fallen out of use. Arise once meant simply an arising or a rising, the act the verb describes. Today arising and rising do that work, so this plural belongs to older writing. A modern reader who meets the spelling is far more likely to be looking at the present-tense verb.

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