Issuing

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Sending out or distributing something such as documents or goods ; formally making something available or granting it, like shares or licenses ; emitting or producing something like light, sound, or heat
2. The act of dispatching or distributing items to recipients ; the official action of providing or authorizing something ; the process of giving off or generating a form of energy or signal
3. Releasing or delivering supplies, papers, or statements ; officially providing or conferring rights or permissions ; the act of sending forth emissions such as radiation or noise

Etymology: Before it meant sending supplies or statements out into the world, "issue" meant a way out. It comes from Latin "exeō", "go out", built from "ex-" ("out") and "eō" ("go"), and passed into Old French as "issue", an exit. Its earliest English sense was the same literal idea of an outlet or passage. The legal sense is where the modern meanings took shape. In medieval law, the "issue" was the point at which pleadings in a suit ended and the disputed facts were handed over for trial. That narrowed to the controversy over facts itself, and by the early 15th century it meant any point of contention between two parties. The idiom "take issue with" appeared in 1797, preceded by "join issue" in the 1690s, both meaning to dispute a point. Our present sense of letting something go forth, whether papers, rights or radiation, grows naturally from that original idea of passing outward. The word's flow from "going out" to "going out into the world" is almost literal.

Synonyms: distributing, releasing, publishing, emitting, producing