Usually means: Subject or problem under discussion.
Definitions Related words Phrases (New!) Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 63 dictionaries that define the word issue:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. issue: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. issue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. issue: Collins English Dictionary
  4. issue: Vocabulary.com
  5. Issue, issue: Wordnik
  6. issue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Issue, issue: Wiktionary
  8. issue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. issue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. issue: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. issue: Dictionary.com
  12. issue (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. issue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Issue (computers), Issue (genealogy), Issue (legal), Issue (magazine), Issue (periodicals), Issue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Issue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. issue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. issue: Rhymezone
  18. issue, issue (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. issue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Issue: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. issue: Free Dictionary
  22. issue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Issue: The Word Detective
  24. issue: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. issue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. issue: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. issue: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. issue: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. ISSUE: Accounting Glossary
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Issue: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  11. Issue: Harvey Financial
  12. issue: Finance-Glossary.com
  13. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  14. Issue: Investopedia
  15. Issue: Securities Terminology
  16. issue: Legal dictionary
  17. Issue: Financial dictionary
  18. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  19. Issue: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  20. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. issue: Netlingo
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. issue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Issue: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. issue: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ISSUE, ISSUE, ISSUE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. issue: Genealogy Glossary
  3. ISSUE: Acronym Finder
  4. issue: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. issue, issue: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. issue: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See issued as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:
noun:  (military, obsolete) A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
noun:  (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
noun:  Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:
noun:  (medicine, now rare) The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
noun:  (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
noun:  (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
noun:  (figuratively, obsolete) A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
noun:  (now rare) The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
noun:  (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
noun:  (obsolete) The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
noun:  (rare and obsolete) Any action or deed performed by a person.
noun:  (obsolete) Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
noun:  (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
noun:  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.
noun:  (figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.
noun:  (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
noun:  The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
noun:  The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
noun:  (obsolete) A sewer.
noun:  The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:
noun:  (obsolete) An exit from a room or building.
noun:  (now rare) A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
noun:  The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
noun:  (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
noun:  The production or distribution of something for general use.
noun:  The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
noun:  (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
noun:  Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
noun:  (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
noun:  (rare and obsolete) A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.
noun:  (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.
noun:  The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:
noun:  (obsolete) The end of any action or process.
noun:  (obsolete) The end of any period of time.
noun:  The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
noun:  (now rare) The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
noun:  (obsolete) The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
noun:  (figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
noun:  (figurative, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
verb:  To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
verb:  To rush out, to sally forth.
verb:  To extend into, to open onto.
verb:  To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
verb:  (archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
verb:  (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
verb:  To send out; to put into circulation.
verb:  To deliver for use.
verb:  To deliver by authority.
noun:  (derogatory) A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    gray,     red,     blue,     black,     white, more...



Word origin

Words similar to issue

Usage examples for issue

Idioms related to issue

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing issue

Words that often appear near issue

Rhymes of issue

Invented words related to issue

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    gray,     red,     blue,     black,     white, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Compound Your Joy   Threepeat   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!