Issue

English Meaning

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

1. The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out.
2. The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by an office or official group: government issue of new bonds.
3. Something produced, published, or offered, as:
4. An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by an office or bureau.
5. A single copy of a periodical: the May issue of the magazine.
6. A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.
7. A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.
8. Proceeds from estates or fines.
9. Something proceeding from a specified source: suspicions that were the issue of a deranged mind.
10. Offspring; progeny: died without issue.
11. A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute: legal and moral issues.
12. A matter of public concern: debated economic issues.
13. A misgiving, objection, or complaint: had issues with the plan to change the curriculum.
14. The essential point; crux: the issue of how to provide adequate child care.
15. A culminating point leading to a decision: bring a case to an issue.
16. Informal A personal problem or emotional disorder: The teacher discussed the child's issues with his parents.
17. A place of egress; an outlet: a lake with no issue to the sea.
18. Pathology A discharge, as of blood or pus.
19. Pathology A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.
20. Archaic Termination; close.
21. To go or come out. See Synonyms at appear.
22. To accrue as proceeds or profit: Little money issued from the stocks.
23. To be born or be descended.
24. To be circulated or published.
25. To spring or proceed from a source. See Synonyms at stem1.
26. To terminate or result.
27. To cause to flow out; emit.
28. To circulate or distribute in an official capacity: issued uniforms to the players.
29. To publish: issued periodic statements.
30. at issue In question; in dispute: "Many people fail to grasp what is really at issue here” ( Gail Sheehy).
31. at issue At variance; in disagreement.
32. join issue To enter into controversy.
33. join issue Law To submit an issue for decision.
34. take issue To take an opposing point of view; disagree.