Definitions for issues

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issues is·sue

Spelling: [ish-oo or, esp. British, is-yoo]

IPA: /ˈɪʃ u or, esp. British, ˈɪs yu/

Issues is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in issues (eisssu).

Definitions for issues

noun

1. the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution:
2. something that is printed or published and distributed, especially a given number of a periodical:
3. something that is sent out or put forth in any form.
4. a quantity of something that is officially offered for sale or put into circulation at one time:
5. a point in question or a matter that is in dispute, as between contending parties in an action at law.
6. a point, matter, or dispute, the decision of which is of special or public importance:
7. a point, the decision of which determines a matter:
8. a point at which a matter is ready for decision:
9. something proceeding from any source, as a product, effect, result, or consequence:
10. Often, issues. a personal or emotional problem: any problem or difficulty:
11. the ultimate result, event, or outcome of a proceeding, affair, etc.:
12. a distribution of food rations, clothing, equipment, or ammunition to a number of officers or enlisted soldiers, or to a military unit.
13. offspring; progeny:
14. a going, coming, passing, or flowing out:
15. a place or means of egress; outlet or exit.
16. something that comes out, as an outflowing stream.
17. Pathology. a discharge of blood, pus, or the like. an incision, ulcer, or the like, emitting such a discharge.
18. issues, English Law. the profits from land or other property.
19. the printing of copies of a work from the original setting of type with some slight changes:
20. Obsolete. a proceeding or action.

Idioms

1. at issue, being disputed or under discussion. being at opposite viewpoints; in disagreement:
2. join issue, to enter into controversy or take exception to. to submit an issue jointly for legal decision.
3. take issue, to disagree; dispute:

verb (used with object)

1. to put out; deliver for use, sale, etc.; put into circulation.
2. to mint, print, or publish for sale or distribution:
3. to distribute (food, clothing, etc.) to one or more officers or enlisted soldiers or to a military unit.
4. to send out; discharge; emit.

verb (used without object)

1. to go, pass, or flow out; come forth; emerge:
2. to be sent, put forth, or distributed authoritatively or publicly, as a legal writ or money.
3. to be published, as a book.
4. to originate or proceed from any source.
5. to arise as a result or consequence; result:
6. Chiefly Law. to proceed as offspring, or be born or descended.
7. Chiefly Law. to come as a yield or profit, as from land.
8. Archaic. to have the specified outcome, result, etc. (often followed by in).
9. Obsolete. to end; terminate.

Origin of issues

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English Middle French: place or passage out; Old French (e)issue Vulgar Latin *exūta, noun use of feminine of *exūtus, Latin exitus exit

Examples for issues

We agreed that we would live together—'pool our issues,' as they say in America.

If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.

You consider too much, where the issues are plain and simple.

If Congress struggles to keep the lights on, how could it deal with issues as complex as police brutality?

There have been changes in our society on issues of sexual and gender justice.

Rogers wipes the blood from his face, and issues his orders.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

All other issues—racial, feminine, even environmental—need to fit around this central objective.

There was something in her heart that told her that to-day's event was big with issues.

Myers said in his statement that some of the issues may have come from an impersonator who claimed to be Shadman.