issue
Meanings
- The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow
- A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- Someone or something that flows out or comes out
- The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
- The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
- Any action or deed performed by a person.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To deliver for use.
- To deliver by authority.
- A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.
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Etymology
From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”). The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates to 1990.