Issue and Offset

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

• The time at which something is supposed to begin.
  • usage: "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
  • synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime
• A compensating equivalent.
  • synonyms: counterbalance
• A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips.
  • synonyms: stolon, runner
• A natural consequence of development.
  • synonyms: outgrowth, branch, offshoot
• A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper.
  • synonyms: offset printing
• Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly.
  • synonyms: set-back, setoff

verb

• Compensate for or counterbalance.
  • usage: "offset deposits and withdrawals"
  • synonyms: countervail
• Make up for.
  • usage: "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"
  • synonyms: cancel, set off
• Cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface.
• Create an offset in.
  • usage: "offset a wall"
• Produce by offset printing.
  • usage: "offset the conference proceedings"

• (n.) A sum, account or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.
• (v.t.) To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
• (n.) In general, that which is set off, from, before or against, something.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Offset.
• (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.
• (n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off.
• (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
• (v.t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
• (n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary or to some object.
• (n.) A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
• (v.i.) To make an offset.
• (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

Is: a. In banking, the deduction by a debtor from a claim or demand of a debt or obligation. Such an' OFFSET' is based upon a counterclaim against the party making the original claim. Example: Seller makes a claim or files a lawsuit asking for $20, 000 from Debtor as the final payment in purchase of a restaurant; as part of his defense Debtor claims an offset of $10, 000 for alleged funds owed by Seller for repairs Debtor made on property owned by Seller, thus reducing the claim of Seller to $10, 000; b. In accounting, the amount equaling or counterbalancing another amount on the opposite side of the same ledger or the ledger of another account; c. In securities, the elimination of a long or short position by making an opposite transaction. See also OFFSET ACCOUNT.