Issue and Command

noun

• An important question that is in dispute and must be settled.
  • usage: "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues"
• One of a series published periodically.
  • usage: "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room"
  • synonyms: number
• Some situation or event that is thought about.
  • usage: "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
  • synonyms: topic, subject, matter
• The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity. )
  • usage: "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago"
  • synonyms: issuing, issuance
• Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government.
  • synonyms: military issue, government issue
• The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property.
  • usage: "the average return was about 5"
  • synonyms: return, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
• A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.
  • usage: "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
  • synonyms: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, upshot
• The immediate descendants of a person.
  • usage: "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"
  • synonyms: offspring, progeny
• The becoming visible.
  • usage: "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins"
  • synonyms: emergence, egress
• An opening that permits escape or release.
  • usage: "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue"
  • synonyms: exit, outlet, way out
• The act of issuing printed materials.
  • synonyms: publication

verb

• Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale.
  • usage: "publish a magazine or newspaper"
  • synonyms: publish, bring out, put out, release
• Circulate or distribute or equip with.
  • usage: "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds"
  • synonyms: supply
• Bring out an official document (such as a warrant. )
• Come out of.
  • usage: "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"
  • synonyms: emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress
• Make out and issue.
  • usage: "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me"
  • synonyms: write out, make out, cut

• (n.) That which passes, flows or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
• (v.i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
• (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned.
• (v.t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
• (v.i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements or a capital stock.
• (v.i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
• (n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
• (v.i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
• (n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
• (n.) The act of sending out or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
• (v.t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
• (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
• (n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
• (v.i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
• (n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.
• (v.i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
• (v.i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
• (v.t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
• (n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood.
• (v.i.) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
• (n.) Produce of the earth or profits of land, tenements or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.

In securities, is stock or bonds sold by a corporation or a government; or, the selling of new securities by a corporation or government through an underwriter or private placement.

noun

• An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
  • synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation
• A military unit or region under the control of a single officer.
• The power or authority to command.
  • usage: "an admiral in command"
• Availability for use.
  • usage: "the materials at the command of the potters grew"
• A position of highest authority.
  • usage: "the corporation has just undergone a change in command"
• Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity.
  • usage: "a good command of French"
  • synonyms: control, mastery
• Computer science. ( a line of code written as part of a computer program)
  • synonyms: instruction, statement, program line

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control

• (v.t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
• (v.i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
• (v.t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
• (n.) A body of troops or any naval or military force or post or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.
• (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
• (n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
• (v.t.) To direct to come; to bestow.
• (v.t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
• (n.) The possession or exercise of authority.
• (n.) Power to dominate, command or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
• (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
• (v.t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
• (v.i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.

(DoD) The authority that a commander in the armed forces lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment. Command includes the authority and responsibility for effectively using available resources and for planning the employment of, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling military forces for the accomplishment of assigned missions. It also includes responsibility for health, welfare, morale, and discipline of assigned personnel.
(DoD) An order given by a commander; that is, the will of the commander expressed for the purpose of bringing about a particular action.
(DoD) A unit or units, an organization, or an area under the command of one individual. Also called CMD. See also area command; combatant command; combatant command (command authority).