issuing

Pluralissuings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of issue.

   The agency is issuing refunds to every customer affected by the delay.

   Issuing new currency requires months of careful planning and security checks.

   Note

   One -ing form does two jobs here. In "is issuing refunds" it is the participle of an action in progress. In "issuing currency requires planning" it is a gerund serving as a subject. Its intransitive uses usually bring a preposition: smoke issuing from a vent, a lane issuing onto a square. Once it takes an article and a plural, it has become the noun for the act.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act by which something is given out, distributed, or formally put forth.

   The issuing of the new stamps drew long lines at the post office.

   Delays in the issuing of travel visas frustrated thousands of applicants.

   Similardistribution, release, publication, allocation

   Oppositewithdrawal, recall

   Note

   A gerund that has become a full noun: it takes the article, an of-phrase and even a plural, as in the issuings and transactions of stocks. The plural suits contexts like finance, where separate acts of putting out shares are counted one by one. Keep it distinct from what flows from a source. Here the issuing is something an authority does, not something that comes out of a spring or vent.

3. 3
   nouncountable

   That which flows or comes forth from a source.

   The cave's slow issuing of cold air kept the inner chamber chilled.

   A sudden issuing of steam escaped from the ruptured valve.

   Similaroutflow, emission, discharge, outpouring, release

   Oppositeinflow, influx, intake

   Note

   The word now names what comes out rather than the act of putting it out: water, air or steam leaving its source. It grows from the verb's intransitive "flow out" meaning, not from the "give out" one. A phrase like the issuings of nature's springs shows its descriptive, slightly elevated feel. There the plural pictures an outflow as many separate streams.

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