Source and Issue

noun

• The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
  • usage: "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
  • synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage
• A document (or organization) from which information is obtained.
  • usage: "the reporter had two sources for the story"
• Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
  • synonyms: seed, germ
• A facility where something is available.
• A person who supplies information.
  • synonyms: informant
• Someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
  • usage: "he was the generator of several complaints"
  • synonyms: generator, author
• Technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system. (
  • usage: "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
• Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies.
  • usage: "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
  • synonyms: reservoir
• A publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to.
  • usage: "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
  • synonyms: reference

verb

• Get (a product) from another country or business.
  • usage: "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
• Specify the origin of.
  • usage: "The writer carefully sourced her report"

• (n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
• (n.) The rising from the ground or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
• (n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.

(DoD) A person, thing, or activity from which information is obtained.
(DoD) In clandestine activities, a person (agent), normally a foreign national, in the employ of an intelligence activity for intelligence purposes.
(DoD) In interrogation activities, any person who furnishes information, either with or without the knowledge that the information is being used for intelligence purposes. In this context, a controlled source is in the employment or under the control of the intelligence activity and knows that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. An uncontrolled source is a voluntary contributor of information and may or may not know that the information is to be used for intelligence purposes. See also agent; collection agency.

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.