# issue

Pronunciation: say "ISH-oo" US /ˈɪʃ(j)u/, AUS /ˈɪʃʉː/; UK say "ISH-yoo" /ˈɪʃjuː/

## Noun

1. A matter in dispute: a point of disagreement that is being debated or decided, including one put before a court.
   - Simple: A subject people disagree about and are trying to settle, including in a court of law.
   - _Healthcare became the central issue during the campaign._
   - _The committee spent hours debating the most divisive issues._
2. Any question or situation that has to be resolved, such as a practical problem that needs fixing.
   - Simple: A question or problem that needs to be dealt with or fixed.
   - _Sorry for the delay; we ran into an issue with the payment system._
   - _A few safety issues still have to be sorted out before the bridge can reopen._
3. A softened, vague term for a personal problem or difficulty, especially an emotional or psychological one. *(US)*
   - Simple: A gentle, vague word for a personal problem, often an emotional or mental one.
   - _After the accident, driving became a real issue for him, and he still gets anxious behind the wheel._
   - _After years of moving from home to home, he has trust issues that make close friendships hard for him._
5. A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical, published on a particular date.
   - Simple: One edition of a magazine or newspaper, put out on a certain date.
   - _The magazine's anniversary issue featured interviews with its founders._
   - _Back issues of the journal are kept in the library archive._
6. The act of giving or putting out something officially, such as coins, stamps, shares, supplies or library books.
   - Simple: The act of officially giving out or putting out things like money, shares, supplies or library books.
   - _The issue of the commemorative coin attracted collectors nationwide._
   - _The government delayed the issue of new passports during the strike._
7. A financial instrument, such as a bond or share, that a company has put out.
   - Simple: A bond, share, or similar paper that a company sells to raise money.
   - _The fund holds several corporate issues with high yields._
   - _Analysts rated the new issue as low risk._
9. A person's children, or all their descendants, especially in law.
   - Simple: A person's children, or all the people born in their family line after them.
   - _The estate was to remain among the founder's issue for as long as the line endured._
   - _Her issue spread across three continents within a century._
11. The whole set of copies produced in one printing, especially a single printing of an edition contrasted with other print runs.
   - Simple: All the copies of a book printed at one time, different from later printings.
   - _Collectors prize the first issue, printed before the typos were corrected._
   - _The publisher's second issue used cheaper paper than the first._
13. The entire set of something, taken as a complete whole. *(slang)*
   - Simple: The whole amount of something, or all of it together.
14. The act or an instance of flowing or coming out, such as water from a spring or fluid from the body.
   - Simple: The act of flowing or coming out, like water from a spring or fluid from the body.
   - _Geologists recorded the issue of hot water from the vent for several weeks._
   - _Firm pressure on the wound slowed the issue of blood until the ambulance arrived._

## Verb

4. To give out or supply something officially, such as a statement, an order, documents or equipment, or to put money, stamps or shares into circulation.
   - Simple: To officially give or send out something, like a statement, a passport, equipment or new money.
   - _The governor issued an emergency declaration after the flood._
   - _Authorities can issue a summons to anyone who fails to appear._
8. To come, flow or go out from a place or source.
   - Simple: To come or flow out of a place.
   - _A thin stream of light issued from the gap beneath the door._
   - _Gases can issue from volcanic vents long after an eruption ends._
10. To turn out in a certain way or end in a particular result.
   - Simple: To end in a certain way or lead to a certain result.
   - _Months of negotiation issued in a lasting peace treaty._
   - _Reckless lending can issue in a wider financial collapse._
12. To open onto or extend into a particular space or area.
   - Simple: To open out onto or lead into a place.
   - _The corridor issues onto a wide terrace overlooking the sea._
   - _Several side streets issue into the main square._

## Noun

15. The point where a river meets the sea or where a lake drains away: an outlet or mouth. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: The place where a river or lake flows out into a larger body of water.
16. The bodily fluid that drains away through a natural opening or an artificially made one. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: The fluid that drains out through a cut or opening in the body.
17. The produce or income that comes from farmland or rental property. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: The crops or money that come from farmland or rented property.
18. The end or outcome of an action or process, such as a negotiation. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: The way something ends, or the result it has.
19. The income derived from fines imposed by a court or law officer, or the fines themselves. *(rare)*
   - Simple: Money that comes from fines charged by a court or an officer of the law.

## Other meanings

- (verb) In a legal case, to arrive at the precise point of fact or law on which the opposing parties take contrary positions.
- (noun) Any person or thing that flows out or comes out from somewhere.
- (noun) A small incision, tear, or deliberately made sore, kept open with a pea or similar object to drain fluid.
- (noun) An advance by soldiers out against the enemy.
- (noun) A whole people seen as coming from one shared ancestor.
- (noun) The guts and inner organs of an animal killed for meat.
- (noun) Something a person does, a deed.
- (noun) Fortune, good or bad, seen as handed out by fate or by God.
- (noun) A drain that carries away waste water.
- (noun) A door or passage for leaving a place.
- (noun) A situation where you must pick one of two unwelcome paths.
- (noun) The experience of an emotion, or a single instance of it.
- (noun) Coming out of a situation or way of being.

## Origin

Latin exeō ("go out, exit"), made of ex- ("out") and eō ("go"), gave Old French issir ("to exit"), whose feminine past participle issue meant "an exit, a way out." Middle English took it over as issue. In law, it first referred to the outcome or close of the pleadings in a lawsuit, then widened to a point of contention and, by 1836, to any important point to be decided.

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