(n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
(n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
(n.) That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
(n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
(n.) Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.
(n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood.
(n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
(n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
(n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.
(n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.
(v. i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
(v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
(v. i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
(v. i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
(v. i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
(v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
(v. i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
(v. i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
(v. t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
(v. t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
(v. t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
Example Sentences:
(1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
(2) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(3) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(5) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(6) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(7) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
(8) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(9) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(10) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(12) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(13) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
(14) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(15) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(16) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(17) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
(18) Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition.
(19) Heathrow, likewise, said Gatwick's new runway would not solve the issue of hub capacity.
(20) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
Stake
Definition:
(v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants.
(v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.
(v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
(v. t.) The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.
(v. t.) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.
(v. t.) That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
(v. t.) To mark the limits of by stakes; -- with out; as, to stake out land; to stake out a new road.
(v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge.
(v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
(2) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
(3) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(4) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
(5) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
(6) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(7) But Mr Bolloré, with a 29% stake in Aegis, vowed to keep calling shareholder meetings until he gets his way.
(8) Xenophon’s letter says if State Grid is also allowed to own a huge stake in Ausgrid it raises serious questions about market dominance.
(9) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
(10) They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China’s ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
(11) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
(12) Buffett’s fortune was briefly boosted by another $5.7bn purely on his personal stake in Kraft Heinz, whose shares rose 10%, while Unilever shares rose 13.4% to a record high.
(13) Despite its 25% stake, BP said it would be wrong to assume that it would obtain a quarter of the expected $100bn worth of revenues.
(14) Most of the money, says WDM, was used to buy shares in Bumi , the troubled London-listed firm co-founded by financier Nat Rothschild that owns large stakes in some of the biggest mining projects in East Kalimantan.
(15) They will not be able to vote out the non-execs because Ashley has that vast stake, but there are occasions when principles are important and this September's AGM will be one of them.
(16) Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more.
(17) Rupert Murdoch has a battle on his hands to win over leading shareholders in BSkyB, who scent the opportunity for a high-stakes game of brinkmanship and are pushing for a premium price of well over £10bn for full control of the pay-television company.
(18) The future of our children, grandchildren and beyond is at stake.
(19) To maintain its 30% stake the Co-op would need to stump up another £120m, increasing its already high debt levels.
(20) Two years later, the privately held Lovefilm acquired Amazon's UK and German movie rental business, with the online retail giant taking a stake in the business as part of the deal.