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Another word for issue

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Noun

  1. The act or process of publishing printed matter

      1. the business or profession of editing, producing, and marketing books, newspapers, magazines, printed music, and, now also, audiobooks, software, etc.
      1. The act or process of publishing matter in print or electronic form.
      2. An issue of printed or electronic matter, such as a book or magazine, offered for distribution or sale.
      3. Communication of information to the public:
      1. The art, process, or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or by similar means.
      2. The act of one that prints.
      3. Matter that is printed.
    See also:

    words

  2. Something brought about by a cause

      1. The final result; the outcome.
      2. The central idea or point; gist.
      1. Following in order or time; subsequent.
      2. Following as a result; consequent.
      3. A result; a consequence.
      1. A following of one thing after another; succession.
      2. An order of succession; an arrangement.
      3. A related or continuous series.
      1. Something that follows as a continuation, especially a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative continues that of a preexisting work.
      2. A result or consequence:
      1. Issuing or following as a consequence or result.
      2. Something that results; an outcome.
      3. A single vector that is the equivalent of a set of vectors.
      1. To happen as a consequence:
      2. To end in a particular way:
      3. Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome.
      1. A development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem, plan, or statement:
      2. The act or process of branching out or dividing into branches.
      3. A subordinate part extending from a main body; a branch.
      1. To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely:
      2. To cause to fall down from a height; hurl downward:
      3. To put suddenly into a certain state or condition:
      1. An end result; a consequence.
      1. The act or process of gathering a crop.
      2. The crop that ripens or is gathered in a season.
      3. The amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season.
      1. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
      2. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
      3. A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food:
      1. Something that takes place, especially a significant occurrence.
      2. A social gathering or activity:
      3. A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet:
      1. The result of a completed series of processes or changes.
      1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
      2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result:
      3. Advantage; avail:
      1. A proposition that follows with little or no proof required from one already proven.
      2. A deduction or an inference.
      3. A natural consequence or effect; a result.
      1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition.
      2. A logical conclusion or inference.
      3. Importance in rank or position:
      1. A consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune:
      2. A period of time following a disastrous event:
      3. A second growth or crop in the same season, as of grass after mowing.
    See also:

    cause

  3. A group consisting of those descended directly from the same parents or ancestors

      1. A mature plant ovule containing an embryo.
      2. A small dry fruit, spore, or other propagative plant part.
      3. Seeds considered as a group:
      1. The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
      2. A child or children of a parent or parents:
      3. A person's descendants considered as a group.
      1. Future generations:
      2. All of a person's descendants.
      1. The organism or organisms resulting from sexual or asexual reproduction.
      2. A child or children of a parent or parents:
      3. The result or product of something:
      1. To come into possession or use of; receive:
      2. To meet with or incur:
      3. To go after and obtain:
      1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds hatched at one time and cared for together.
      2. The children in one family.
      3. To focus the attention on a subject persistently and moodily; worry:
    See also:

    kin

  4. A situation that presents difficulty, uncertainty, or perplexity

    See also:

    easy

Verb

  1. To pass or pour out

      1. To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.
      2. To issue in a stream; pour forth:
      3. To circulate, as the blood in the body.
      1. Having nothing inside or on the surface; holding or containing nothing:
      2. Having no elements or members; null:
      3. Having no occupants; not being used:
      1. To release, as from confinement, care, or duty:
      2. To let go; empty out:
      3. To pour forth; emit:
    See also:

    enter

  2. To discharge material, as vapor or fumes, usually suddenly and violently

    See also:

    move

    free

  3. To come into view

    Idioms:
    See also:

    see

  4. To have hereditary derivation

      1. To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap:
      2. To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring:
      3. To start doing something suddenly:
      1. To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.
      2. To slope, extend, or incline downward:
      3. To be related by genetic descent from an individual or individuals in a previous generation:
      1. To obtain or receive from a source:
      2. To produce or obtain (a compound) from another substance by chemical reaction.
      3. To trace the origin or development of (a word).
    Idioms:
    See also:

    kin

  5. To present for circulation, exhibit, or sale

    See also:

    words

  6. To have as a source

      1. To spring up, as from the soil.
      2. To come into being; arise.
      1. The main ascending part of a plant; a stalk or trunk.
      2. A slender stalk supporting or connecting another plant part, such as a leaf or flower.
      3. A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.
      1. To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap:
      2. To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring:
      3. To start doing something suddenly:
      1. To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
      2. To get out of bed:
      3. To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend:
      1. To go forward or onward, especially after an interruption; continue:
      2. To begin to carry on an action or a process:
      3. To move on in an orderly manner:
      1. To bring into being; create or start:
      2. To come into being; start:
      1. To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid.
      2. To issue in a stream; pour forth:
      3. To circulate, as the blood in the body.
      1. To come or send forth, as from a source:
      1. To obtain or receive from a source:
      2. To produce or obtain (a compound) from another substance by chemical reaction.
      3. To trace the origin or development of (a word).
      1. in the second person, with relation to the speaker
      2. in the first person, with relation to the person addressed
      3. in the third person, with relation to the person or thing approached
      1. To get up, as from a sitting or prone position; rise.
      2. To awaken and get up:
      3. To move upward; ascend.
    See also:

    start

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Another word for issue

Noun

  1. Question

    See also:

    subject

    puzzle

  2. Result

    See also:

    result

  3. Edition

      1. An effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience:
      2. A vague notion, remembrance, or belief:
      3. A mark produced on a surface by pressure.
      1. An imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate:
      2. A file that has the same data as another file:
      3. One example of a printed text, picture, film, or recording:
      1. A member of the set of positive integers; one of a series of symbols of unique meaning in a fixed order that can be derived by counting.
      2. A member of any of the following sets of mathematical objects: integers, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers. These sets can be derived from the positive integers through various algebraic and analytic constructions.
      3. Arithmetic.
    See also:

    edition

  4. Release

    See also:

    distribution

  5. That which has been released on the market

    See also:

    investment

Verb

  1. To emerge

    See also:

    arise

    appear

  2. To be a result of

    See also:

    result

    begin

    arise

  3. To release

    See also:

    publish

    declare

    advertise

  4. To distribute

    See also:

    distribute

  5. To emit

    See also:

    arise

    emit

Idioms:

    at issue

    2. take issue

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Sentence Examples

  • Three days later the issue was settled.

  • I'll issue the orders.

  • "Boss, we have a bigger issue," Landon's voice was hushed.

  • Her response to the issue about a son was indication that she was ready to break from the past.

  • "There's no saving Ne'Rin from whatever his issue is?" she asked, upset.

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