issue

noun

1. (obsolete)The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
2. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow

   “The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.”

   “And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeeres, came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the hemme of his garment.”

3. (archaic)Someone or something that flows out or comes out

   “For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.”

4. (historical, usually)Someone or something that flows out or comes out

   “He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.”

   “His Majesty, His issue, if any, and the descendants of that issue, shall not after His Majesty’s abdication have any right, title or interest in or to the succession to the Throne, and section one of the Act of Settlement shall be construed accordingly.”

5. (figuratively)Someone or something that flows out or comes out

   “Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.”

6. (figuratively, obsolete)Someone or something that flows out or comes out
7. (archaic)Someone or something that flows out or comes out

   “3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.”

8. (historical, rare)Someone or something that flows out or comes out
9. (obsolete)Someone or something that flows out or comes out
10. (obsolete, rare)Someone or something that flows out or comes out
11. (obsolete)Someone or something that flows out or comes out
12. Someone or something that flows out or comes out

    “Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.”

13. Someone or something that flows out or comes out

    “The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.”

14. (figuratively, usually, with-definite-article)Someone or something that flows out or comes out

    “The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.”

15. Someone or something that flows out or comes out

    “The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.”

16. Someone or something that flows out or comes out
17. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly
18. (obsolete)The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
19. (obsolete)The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet

    “How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?”

20. (archaic)The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet
21. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly

    “The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.”

22. (historical)The action or an instance of sending something out

    “Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.”

23. The action or an instance of sending something out

    “Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.”

24. The action or an instance of sending something out

    “The uniform was standard prison issue.”

25. The action or an instance of sending something out

    “The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.”

26. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly

    “Please stand by. We are having technical issues.”

27. Any question or situation to be resolved

    “The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.”

28. (figuratively)Any question or situation to be resolved

    “For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.”

29. (obsolete, rare)Any question or situation to be resolved
30. (US, plural-normally)Any question or situation to be resolved

    “She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.”

31. (obsolete)The action or an instance of concluding something
32. (obsolete)The action or an instance of concluding something
33. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly

    “The eternal happiness or misery of the departed saint depended on the issue of this contest between the powers of good and evil for the possession of his mortal remains.”

34. (archaic)The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
35. (obsolete)The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome
36. (archaic, figuratively)The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
37. (archaic, figuratively)The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
38. (derogatory)A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.

verb

1. (intransitive)To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.

   “The water issued forth from the spring.”

   “The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.”

   “...thy sons that shall issue from thee...”

   “1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.”

   “A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly […]”

2. (intransitive)To rush out, to sally forth.

   “The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.”

3. (intransitive)To extend into, to open onto.

   “The road issues into the highway.”

4. (intransitive)To turn out in a certain way, to result in.

   “But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.”

5. (archaic, intransitive)To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.

   “And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.”

6. To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
7. (transitive)To send out; to put into circulation.

   “The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.”

8. (transitive)To deliver for use.

   “The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.”

   “Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.”

9. (transitive)To deliver by authority.

   “The court issued a writ of mandamus.”

   “Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.”