issued

noun

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

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:

(figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.

(publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.

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.

(figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.

(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.

The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.

The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:

The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:

The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:

The production or distribution of something for general use.

The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.

(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.

Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:

(law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.

(figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.

(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.

The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:

The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:

(medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.

(derogatory) A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.

(military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

(medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

(now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.

(figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.

(now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.

(historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.

(obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.

(rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person.

(obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.

(obsolete) A sewer.

(obsolete) An exit from a room or building.

(now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.

(historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.

(rare and obsolete) A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.

(obsolete) The end of any action or process.

(obsolete) The end of any period of time.

(now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.

(obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.

(figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.

(figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

verb

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

(intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.

(intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.

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

(law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.

(transitive) To send out; to put into circulation.

(transitive) To deliver for use.

(transitive) To deliver by authority.

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

Roots

exeoissu- · Latin · go out

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