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say it: ISH-oo-uhns
issuance is a noun meaning "the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)". It is pronounced /ˈɪʃuəns/ — ISH-oo-uhns. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
“a new issue of stamps”
“the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for issuance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.