(~s, issuing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
An ~ is an important subject that people are arguing about or discussing.
Agents will raise the ~ of prize-money for next year’s world championships...
Is it right for the Church to express a view on political ~s?
= subject, matter
N-COUNT: usu with supp
see also side ~
2.
If something is the ~, it is the thing you consider to be the most important part of a situation or discussion.
I was earning a lot of money, but that was not the ~...
The real ~ was never addressed.
N-SING: the N
3.
An ~ of something such as a magazine or newspaper is the version of it that is published, for example, in a particular month or on a particular day.
The growing problem is underlined in the latest ~ of the Lancet...
= edition
N-COUNT
4.
If you ~ a statement or a warning, you make it known formally or publicly.
Last night he ~d a statement denying the allegations...
Yesterday his kidnappers ~d a second threat to kill him.
= put out
VERB: V n, V n
5.
If you are ~d with something, it is officially given to you.
On your appointment you will be ~d with a written statement of particulars of employment...
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed with n
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Issue is also a noun.
...a standard army ~ rifle.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
6.
When something such as a liquid, sound, or smell ~s from something, it comes out of that thing. (FORMAL)
A tinny voice ~d from a speaker.
VERB: V from n
7.
The question or point at ~ is the question or point that is being argued about or discussed.
The problems of immigration were not the question at ~...
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
8.
If you make an ~ of something, you try to make other people think about it or discuss it, because you are concerned or annoyed about it.
It seemed the Colonel had no desire to make an ~ of the affair.
PHRASE: V inflects
9.
If you take ~ with someone or something they said, you disagree with them, and start arguing about it.
I will not take ~ with the fact that we have a recession.
= argue
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n