Library / English Dictionary

ISSUANCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago

Synonyms:

issuance; issue; issuing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

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

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

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)

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