issue /ishˈū or -oo, also isˈū/

1. A going or flowing out
2. An outlet
3. (an) act of sending out
4. That which flows or passes out
5. Offspring, children
6. Produce, profits
7. A fine (obsolete)
8. A putting into circulation, giving out for use, as of banknotes
9. Publication, as of a book
10. A set of things put forth at one time
11. A single thing given out or supplied (chiefly military)
12. An act or deed (Shakespeare)
13. Ultimate result, outcome
14. Upshot
15. Lucky or successful outcome (Shakespeare)
16. Critical determination
17. A point in dispute
18. A point on which a question depends
19. A question awaiting decision or ripe for decision
20. A discharge or flux (archaic med)
21. An ulcer produced artificially

1. To go, flow or come out
2. To proceed, as from a source
3. To spring
4. To be produced
5. To come to a point in fact or law (law)
6. To turn out, result, terminate

1. To send out
2. To put forth
3. To put into circulation
4. To publish
5. To give out for use
6. To supply (military)

issˈuable adjective

issˈuably adverb

issˈuance noun

The act of giving out, promulgation

issˈuant adjective (heraldry)

Issuing or coming up from another, as a charge or bearing

issˈueless adjective

1. Without issue
2. Childless

issˈuer noun

issuing house noun

A corporate bank that handles share issues on behalf of listed companies

at issue

1. In disagreement
2. In dispute

feigned issue (law)

An issue made up for trial by agreement of the parties or by an order of court, instead of by the ordinary legal procedure

force the issue

To hasten or compel a final decision on a matter

general issue (law)

A simple denial of the whole charge, as ‘Not guilty’, instead of a special issue, an issue taken by denying a particular part of the allegations

have issues

To have unresolved points of conflict or grievance

immaterial issue (law)

An issue which is not decisive of any part of the litigation, as opposed to a material issue, one which necessarily involves some part of the rights in controversy

join (or take) issue

1. To take an opposite position, or opposite positions, in dispute
2. To enter into dispute
3. To take up a point as basis of dispute

make an issue of

To exaggerate the seriousness of

side issue

A subordinate issue arising from the main business

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