issue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)

   a new issue of stamps

2. 2
   noun

   an important question that is in dispute and must be settled

   the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone

3. 3
   noun

   one of a series published periodically

   They found an old issue of the magazine in their dentist's waiting room.

4. 4
   verb

   come out of

   Water issued from the hole in the wall

5. 5
   verb

   circulate or distribute or equip with

   issue a new uniform to the children

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   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?

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”). The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Conseque…