ISSUING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does issuing mean? 

• ISSUING (noun)
  The noun ISSUING has 1 sense:

1. the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)

  Familiarity information: ISSUING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISSUING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

issuance; issue; issuing

Context example:

the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago

Hypernyms ("issuing" is a kind of...):

provision; supply; supplying (the activity of supplying or providing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "issuing"):

stock issue ((corporation law) the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time)

Derivation:

issue (circulate or distribute or equip with)

 Context examples 

From the accumulated sadness into which I fell, I had at length no hope of ever issuing again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At the bottom of the street, however, she looked back again, and then, not at a window, but issuing from the door, she saw Miss Tilney herself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I saw the smoke issuing from his lips as he slowly turned his head and glanced out over the water in my direction.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Presently she laughed and showed him a small sketch of Jo in her scribbling suit, with the bow rampantly erect upon her cap, and issuing from her mouth the words, 'Genius burns!'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And then I heard the voice of Captain Smollett issuing orders.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In which case, I shall begin issuing my commands.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And issuing from my asylum with precaution, I sought a back-stairs which conducted directly to the kitchen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And this nursery was situated alongside the warm fluids issuing from the cracks in the outcrop.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

Every LSID consists of up to five parts: the Network Identifier (NID); the root DNS name of the issuing authority; the namespace chosen by the issuing authority; the object id unique in that namespace; and an optional revision id for storing versioning information.

(Life Sciences Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)