Issued

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ˈɪʃud/

Definitions

1. To distribute or announce information in an official capacity while providing something to a group or audience and deriving from a recognized authority
2. To formally present or circulate information officially while disseminating items to people and originating from a credible source
3. To officially give or distribute something to people or groups ; to formally announce or publish information in an official manner

Etymology: "Issued" is the past tense and past participle of "issue," and the verb carries a legal sense that predates its everyday use. The English noun came from Old French "issue," meaning "an exit, a way out," which was the feminine past participle of "issir," "to exit." That Old French verb came from Latin "exeō," "go out," built from "ex-" ("out") and "eō" ("go"). In other words, the word's core idea is simply going out through a door. The legal sense grew from that picture of passage. In early fourteenth-century Anglo-French, "issue" meant the final point of pleadings in a lawsuit, the matter that had to be decided by trial, and from there it came to mean the disputed facts themselves. By the early fifteenth century it could mean any point of contention between two parties, and by 1836 it had broadened to an important question awaiting a decision. The official sense of formally putting something out into circulation is a natural extension of "going out" into public view. The idiom "take issue with," meaning to dispute someone, appeared in 1797, preceded by "join issue" in the 1690s.

Synonyms: released, published, distributed

Antonyms: withheld, retracted