Issue

/ˈɪʃuː/ · noun

Meaning

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
2. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
3. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
4. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
5. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
6. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
7. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
8. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:

Example Sentences

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

Please stand by. We are having technical issues.

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.

The water issued forth from the spring.

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

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.

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

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 […]

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• issues
• issuing
• issued

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