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issuing

issuing is the present participle and gerund of issue.

Noun

issuing (plural issuings)

  1. The act by which something is issued.
    • the issuings and transactions of stocks
  2. That which issues from a source.
    • the issuings of nature's springs

Meaning of issue

Verb

issue (third-person singular simple present issues, present participle issuing, simple past and past participle issued)

  1. (intransitive) To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
    • The water issued forth from the spring.
  2. (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.
    • The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
  3. (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.
    • The road issues into the highway.
  4. (intransitive) To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
    • But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 171
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
    • And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes,
      Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes,
      That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
  6. To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.

See all 47 meanings of issue

Forms of issuing

pluralissuings

Questions about issuing

What does issuing mean?
Issuing means the act by which something is issued.
What is issuing the present participle and gerund of?
Issuing is the present participle and gerund of issue.
What part of speech is issuing?
Issuing is a noun.
What is the plural of issuing?
The plural of issuing is issuings.

Words near issuing in the dictionary

  1. issuer
  2. issuers
  3. issues
  4. issuest
  5. issueth
  6. issuing
  7. issuings
  8. issur
  9. Issus
  10. Issy
  11. Issyk Kul

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