GOVERNMENT ISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does government issue mean? 

• GOVERNMENT ISSUE (noun)
  The noun GOVERNMENT ISSUE has 1 sense:

1. supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

  Familiarity information: GOVERNMENT ISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOVERNMENT ISSUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

government issue; issue; military issue

Hypernyms ("government issue" is a kind of...):

fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)