issue
issues; issued; issuing
One copy of "Celebrities are Cool" magazine is an issue. It is issued, or put out, by the publisher. You and your mother may argue over the issue, or topic, of whether or not you should read it.
The original meaning of the word issue was to put something out. If a celebrity issues a statement or the post office issues new stamps, they put them out for the public. Likewise, an issue is a current topic, sometimes controversial, that is being discussed. Politicians often say they want to talk about the issues (and not their personal lives!). You might hear someone say, "He's got issues" about a person who has some problems, usually emotional ones, but this is a very new use for the word.
Definitions of issue
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some situation or event that is thought about
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area
a subject of study
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blind spot
a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and fail to exercise good judgment
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remit
the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
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res adjudicata, res judicata
a matter already settled in court; cannot be raised again
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gray area, grey area
an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other
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territory
an area of knowledge or interest
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cognitive content, content, mental object
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
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an important question that is in dispute and must be settled“the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone”“politicians never discuss the real issues”
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gut issue, hot-button issue
an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions
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paramount issue
an issue whose settlement is more important than anything else; and issue that must be settled before anything else can be settled
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bread-and-butter issue, pocketbook issue
an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources
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quodlibet
an issue that is presented for formal disputation
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cognitive content, content, mental object
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
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one of a series published periodically“she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room”
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synonyms:
number
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edition
an issue of a newspaper
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extra
an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)
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periodical
a publication that appears at fixed intervals
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edition
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the act of issuing printed materials
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synonyms:
publication
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printing
the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution
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printing
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prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
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bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
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communicate, intercommunicate
transmit thoughts or feelings
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communicate, intercommunicate
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the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)“a new issue of stamps”“the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago”
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stock issue
(corporation law) the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time
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stock issue
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supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
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synonyms:
government issue, military issue
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circulate or distribute or equip with“issue a new uniform to the children”
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synonyms:
supply
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recall
make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
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free, release, unblock, unfreeze
make (assets) available
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reissue
issue (a new version of)
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free, release
make (information) available for publication
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declassify
lift the restriction on and make available again
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distribute
make available
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recall
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make out and issue
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a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
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materialisation, materialization, offspring
something that comes into existence as a result
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aftereffect
any result that follows its cause after an interval
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aftermath, backwash, wake
the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
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bandwagon effect
the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity
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brisance
the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion
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butterfly effect
the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago
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by-product, byproduct
a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
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change
the result of alteration or modification
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coattails effect
(politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party
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Coriolis effect
(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere
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dent
an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
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domino effect
the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
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harvest
the consequence of an effort or activity
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impact, wallop
a forceful consequence; a strong effect
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influence
the effect of one thing (or person) on another
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knock-on effect
a secondary or incidental effect
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branch, offset, offshoot, outgrowth
a natural consequence of development
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product
a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances
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placebo effect
any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
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position effect
(genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome
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repercussion, reverberation
a remote or indirect consequence of some action
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response
a result
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fallout, side effect
any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
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spillover
(economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
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perturbation
(physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly
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purchase
a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage
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wind
a tendency or force that influences events
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reaction
a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude
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epiphenomenon
a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon
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depolarisation, depolarization
a loss of polarity or polarization
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phenomenon
any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
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the becoming visible
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eruption
the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum
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dissilience
the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe
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beginning
the event consisting of the start of something
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eruption
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the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
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economic rent, rent
the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
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payback
financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment)
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income
the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time
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economic rent, rent
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the immediate descendants of a person“he died without issue”
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baby
the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
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bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson
the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
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child, kid
a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
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eldest, firstborn
the offspring who came first in the order of birth
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grandchild
a child of your son or daughter
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heir, successor
a person who inherits some title or office
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army brat
the child of a career officer of the United States Army
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babe, baby, infant
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
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female offspring
a child who is female
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granddaughter
a female grandchild
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grandson
a male grandchild
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great grandchild
a child of your grandson or granddaughter
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male offspring, man-child
a child who is male
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stepchild
a child of your spouse by a former marriage
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an opening that permits escape or release
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come out of“Water issued from the hole in the wall”
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synonyms:
come forth, come out, egress, emerge, go forth
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pop out
come out suddenly or forcefully
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radiate
issue or emerge in rays or waves
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leak
enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
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escape
issue or leak, as from a small opening
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fall
come out; issue
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debouch
pass out or emerge; especially of rivers
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come out, fall out
come off
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