Issue



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GRE 红宝书

• v. 出来, 流出; 发给, 分发; n. ( 书刊的) 期
• ［英］ 发出, 流出 ( outgoing; outflow) 发出, 分发 ( supply and distribution of items for use or sale)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, exit, proceeds, from Anglo-French, from issir to come out, go out, from Latin exire to go out, from ex- + ire to go; akin to Gothic iddja he went, Greek ienai to go, Sanskrit eti he goes
• Date: 14th century
• 1. plural proceeds from a source of revenue (as an estate)
• 2. the action of going, coming, or flowing out ; egress, emergence
• 3. a means or place of going out ; exit, outlet
• 4. offspring, progeny <died without issue>
• 5.
  • a. a final outcome that usually constitutes a solution (as of a problem) or resolution (as of a difficulty)
  • b. obsolete a final conclusion or decision about something arrived at after consideration
  • c. archaic termination, end <hope that his enterprise would have a prosperous issue — T. B. Macaulay>
• 6.
  • a. a matter that is in dispute between two or more parties
  • b.
    • (1) a vital or unsettled matter <economic issues>
    • (2) concern, problem <I have issues with his behavior>
  • c. the point at which an unsettled matter is ready for a decision <brought the matter to an issue>
• 7. a discharge (as of blood) from the body
• 8.
  • a. something coming forth from a specified source <issues of a disordered imagination>
  • b. obsolete deed
• 9.
  • a. the act of publishing or officially giving out or making available <the next issue of commemorative stamps><issue of supplies by the quartermaster>
  • b. the thing or the whole quantity of things given out at one time <read the latest issue>
• ? issueless adjective

II. verb (issued; issuing)

• Date: 14th century
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to go, come, or flow out
    • b. to come forth ; emerge
  • 2. accrue <profits issuing from the sale of the stock>
  • 3. archaic to descend from a specified parent or ancestor
  • 4. ［trn］ to be a consequence or fi

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