issue
/ˈɪʃ(j)u/ noun A2- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts. · The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children. · He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants. · Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication. · Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
- 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.
- The entire set of something; all of something. · The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company. · The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
Plural issues
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“‘This is my counsel:—Our accounts are made up and our bills paid; all we have to do is to stop the issue of any more, and close our office.’
Even the triumphant issue of his labours could not save him from reaction after so terrible an exertion, and at a time when Europe was ringing with his name and when his room was literally ankle-deep with congratulatory telegrams I found him a prey to the blackest depression.
I still retain an almost verbatim report of the interview in which he demonstrated the true facts of the case to Monsieur Dubuque of the Paris police, and Fritz von Waldbaum, the well-known specialist of Dantzig, both of whom had wasted their energies upon what proved to be side-issues.
As it was done yesterday the strong probability was that we should find the words in yesterday’s issue.”
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