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ISSUANCE
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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:
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)