issue

issue

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English

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). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates back to 1990.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭsyo͞o, ĭsh(y)o͞o, IPA(key): (now more common) /ˈɪʃ(j)uː/, (more traditional) /ˈɪsjuː/
  • (General American) enPR: ĭsh(y)o͞o, IPA(key): /ˈɪʃ(j)u/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɪʃʉː/, [ˈɪʃɪ̈ɯ]
  • (Canada) enPR: ĭsyo͞o, ĭsh(y)o͞o, IPA(key): /ˈɪsjuː/, /ˈɪʃ(j)uː/
    • (dialectal) enPR: ĭs(y)ū, ĭshū, IPA(key): /ˈɪs(j)ɪʊ̯/, /ˈɪʃɪʊ̯/
  • Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪsjuː, -ɪʃjuː, -ɪʃuː

Noun

issue (plural issues)

  1. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
    1. (military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
    2. (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
      The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
  2. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
    1. (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
    2. (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
      He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
    3. (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
      Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
    4. (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
    5. (now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
      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.
    6. (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
    7. (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
    8. (rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person.
    9. (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
    10. (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
      Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
    11. The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
      The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
    12. (figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.
      The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
    13. (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
      The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
    14. The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
  3. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) A sewer.
  4. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
    2. (now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
  5. 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.
    1. (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
    2. The production or distribution of something for general use.
      Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
    3. The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
      The uniform was standard prison issue.
    4. (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
      The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
  6. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
    Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
    1. (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
      The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
    2. (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
      For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
    3. (rare and obsolete) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.
    5. (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
      Hyponym: hang-up
  7. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) The end of any action or process.
    2. (obsolete) The end of any period of time.
  8. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
    1. (now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
    2. (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
  9. (figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
  10. (figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

Synonyms

  • (movement of soldiers): sortie, sally; charge (rapid, usually mounted)
  • (progeny): descendant, fruit of one's loins, offspring

Derived terms

Related terms

  • exit

Translations

Verb

issue (third-person singular simple present issues, present participle issuing, simple past and past participle issued)

  1. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
    • 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.
  2. To rush out, to sally forth.
  3. To extend into, to open onto.
  4. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
  5. (archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
  6. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
  7. To send out; to put into circulation.
  8. To deliver for use.
  9. To deliver by authority.

Synonyms

  • (to give out): begive

Derived terms

  • issuable
  • issuer
  • misissue

Translations

References

  • “issue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Iesus, Susie, usies, ussie

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French issue, from Old French issue (“exit”), from issu, past participle of issir, eissir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.sy/

Noun

issue f (plural issues)

  1. exit, way out
    une voie sans issue ― a dead end
    En cas de danger, empruntez l’issue de secours. ― In case of danger, use the emergency exit.
  2. outcome, result
    L’issue de cette bataille est incertaine. ― The outcome of this battle is uncertain.
  3. end, conclusion

Adjective

issue

  1. feminine singular of issu

Further reading

  • “issue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French issue (“exit”), from issu, past participle of issir, eissir. Compare issen.

Forms with /ʃ/ mostly do not reflect palatalisation of /s/ (as in modern English); instead, they exist because Old French /s(s)/ was perceived as being phonetically closer to Middle English /ʃ/ than to /s/.

Alternative forms

  • essu, ischewe, isseu, issew, issheu, isshewe, isshue, issieu, issu, issuwe, issw, isswe, uschew, usshew, usshewe, ussu, ussue, yschue, ysseu, yssew, yssue, ysue

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈsiu̯(ə)/, /iˈʃiu̯(ə)/
  • (with stress retraction) IPA(key): /ˈisiu̯(ə)/, /ˈiʃiu̯(ə)/

Noun

issue (plural issues)

  1. Exit, departure; the act of leaving or going out:
    1. (especially pathology) An outwards flow or discharge.
    2. (rare) A sortie (movement of soldiers towards the enemy)
  2. An exit; a way out of a place.
    1. (anatomy) A passage or channel out of the body.
    2. (medicine) An issue; (incision for draining liquid in medieval medicine)
  3. A result or outcome arising from something.
    1. Offspring, family; one's children or descendants.
    2. (finance) Income, revenue, especially from a tax.
    3. The resolution of a dispute or conflict.
    4. (rare) One's (non-biological) successors or inheritors.
    5. (rare) One's preordained fate.
  4. (rare) An issue; a matter of dispute or controversy.
  5. The entrails and other waste products of a slaughtered animal.
  6. An display of frustration or annoyance; a vent.
Derived terms
  • issuen
Descendants
  • English: issue
References
  • “issū̆e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

issue

  1. Alternative form of issuen

Old French

Verb

issue f

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of issir

Noun

issue oblique singular, f (oblique plural issues, nominative singular issue, nominative plural issues)

  1. exit; way out
  2. departure (act of leaving)

Descendants

  • Middle French: yssue, issue
    • French: issue
  • → Middle English: issue, essu, ischewe, isseu, issew, issheu, isshewe, isshue, issieu, issu, issuwe, issw, isswe, uschew, usshew, usshewe, ussu, ussue, yschue, ysseu, yssew, yssue, ysue
    • English: issue

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