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Return vs. Issue — What's the Difference?

Return vs. Issue — What's the Difference?

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Return

To go or come back, as to an earlier condition or place
She returned to her office after lunch.

Issue

A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute
What legal and moral issues should we consider?.

Return

To revert in speech, thought, or practice
I returned to my knitting after answering the phone.

Issue

A matter of public concern
Debated economic issues.

Return

To revert to a former owner.
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Issue

A misgiving, objection, or complaint
Had issues with the plan to change the curriculum.

Return

To answer or respond
I said hello to him, and he returned in kind.

Issue

A problem or difficulty.

Return

To send, put, or carry back
We return bottles to the store.

Issue

A personal problem
Is convinced that her boss has issues.

Return

To give or send back in reciprocation
She returned his praise.

Issue

The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by a business, government, or organization
Government issue of new bonds.

Return

To give back to the owner
He returned her book.

Issue

An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by a business, government, or organization.

Return

To reflect or send back
The echo was returned by the canyon wall.

Issue

A single copy of a periodical
The May issue of the magazine.

Return

To produce or yield (profit or interest) as a payment for labor, investment, or expenditure.

Issue

A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.

Return

To submit (an official report, for example) to a judge or other person in authority.

Issue

Proceeds from estates or fines.

Return

To render or deliver (a writ or verdict, for example) to the proper officer or court of law.

Issue

Something proceeding from a specified source
Suspicions that were the issue of a deranged mind.

Return

To elect or reelect, as to a legislative body.

Issue

A culminating point leading to a decision
Bring a case to an issue.

Return

(Games) To respond to (a partner's lead) by leading the same suit in cards.

Issue

A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.

Return

(Architecture) To turn away from or place at an angle to the previous line of direction.

Issue

The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out
Where the lake gives issue to its waters.

Return

(Sports) To hit or send back (a tennis ball, for example) to one's opponent.

Issue

A place of egress; an outlet
A lake with no issue to the sea.

Return

(Football) To run with (the ball) after a kickoff, punt, interception, or fumble.

Issue

A discharge, as of blood or pus.

Return

The act or condition of going, coming, bringing, or sending back
After my return, we can discuss this matter further.

Issue

A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.

Return

The act of bringing or sending something back to a previous place, condition, or owner
The late return of a library book.

Issue

Offspring; progeny
Died without issue.

Return

Something brought or sent back.

Issue

To flow, go, or come out
Water issuing from a spring.
Voices issuing from a room.

Return

Returns Merchandise returned, as to a retailer by a consumer or to a wholesaler by a retailer.

Issue

To proceed from a source; emerge or come forth
Ideas issuing from a discussion. ].

Return

Something that goes or comes back.

Issue

The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly:

Return

A recurrence, as of a periodic occasion or event
The return of spring.

Issue

A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.

Return

Something exchanged for that received; repayment.

Issue

The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly in abnormal amounts.
The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.

Return

A reply; a response.

Issue

Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly:

Return

The profit made on an exchange of goods.

Issue

The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.

Return

Often returns A profit or yield, as from labor or investments.

Issue

Offspring: one's natural child or children.
He died lawyered up.

Return

Output or yield per unit rather than cost per unit, as in the manufacturing of a particular product.

Issue

Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.

Return

A report, list, or set of statistics, especially one that is formal or official.

Issue

A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.

Return

Often returns A report on the vote in an election.

Issue

The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.

Return

Chiefly British An election.

Issue

Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.

Return

(Games) A lead in certain card games that responds to the lead of one's partner.

Issue

The entrails of a slaughtered animal.

Return

The act of hitting or sending the ball back to one's opponent.

Issue

Any action or deed performed by a person.

Return

The ball thus sent back.

Issue

Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.

Return

The act of running back the ball after a kickoff, punt, interception, or fumble.

Issue

A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.

Return

The yardage so gained.

Issue

The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.

Return

The extension of a molding, projection, or other part at an angle (usually 90°) to the main part.

Issue

The entire set of something; all of something.
The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.

Return

A part of a building set at an angle to the façade.

Issue

(finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
The company's issues have included securities.

Return

A turn, bend, or similar reversal of direction, as in a stream or road.

Issue

The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.

Return

A pipe or conduit for carrying something, especially water, back to its starting point.

Issue

The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:

Return

The key or mechanism on a machine, such as a typewriter, that positions the carriage or printing element at the beginning of a new line.

Issue

A sewer.

Return

A key on a computer keyboard or keypad used to begin a new line or paragraph in a text editor.

Issue

The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly:

Return

Chiefly British A roundtrip ticket.

Issue

An exit from a room or building.

Return

The bringing or sending back of a writ, subpoena, or other document, generally with a short written report on it, by a sheriff or other officer to the court from which it was issued.

Issue

A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.

Return

A certified report by an assessor, election officer, collector, or other official.

Issue

The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.

Return

A formal tax statement on the required official form indicating taxable income, allowed deductions, exemptions, and the computed tax that is due. Also called income tax return, tax return.

Issue

A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.

Return

Of, relating to, or bringing about a going or coming back to a place or situation
The return voyage.
A return envelope.

Issue

The production or distribution of something for general use.
Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.

Return

Given, sent, or done in reciprocation or exchange
A return volley.
A return invitation.

Issue

The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
The uniform was standard prison issue.

Return

Performed, presented, or taking place again
A return engagement of the ballet.
A return tennis match.

Issue

(finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.

Return

Returning or affording return or recirculation
A return plumbing pipe.
A return valve.

Issue

Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
Please stand by. We are having technical issues.

Return

Reversing or changing direction.

Issue

A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.

Return

Having or formed by a reversal or change in direction; returning on itself, as a bend in a road or stream.

Issue

Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.

Return

(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
Although the birds fly north for the summer, they return here in winter.

Issue

A dispute between two alternatives, a dilemma.

Return

(intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
To return to my story...

Issue

A psychological or emotional difficulty, any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.

Return

(intransitive) To recur; to come again.
Winter returns every year.

Issue

The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly:

Return

To turn back, retreat.

Issue

The end of any action or process.

Return

To turn (something) round.

Issue

The end of any period of time.

Return

(transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
Please return your hands to your lap.

Issue

The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:

Return

(transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
You should return the library book within one month.

Issue

The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.

Return

(transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
Yeah, it's $600,000 but, if it doesn't work, you can always return it. As long as it's undamaged and in the original packaging, I'll give you a full refund.

Issue

The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.

Return

To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

Issue

The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.

Return

(tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
The player couldn't return the serve because it was so fast.

Issue

The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.

Return

(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.

Issue

To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
The water issued forth from the spring.
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.

Return

(cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.

Issue

To rush out, to sally forth.
The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.

Return

(transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
To return an answer;
To return thanks;
"Do it yourself!" she returned.

Issue

To extend into, to open onto.
The road issues into the highway.

Return

To relinquish control to the calling procedure.

Issue

To turn out in a certain way, to result in.

Return

To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
This function returns the number of files in the directory.

Issue

(archaic) To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.

Return

To retort; to throw back.
To return the lie

Issue

(legal) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.

Return

(transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
To return the result of an election

Issue

To send out; to put into circulation.
The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.

Return

To elect according to the official report of the election officers.

Issue

To deliver for use.
The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.

Return

The act of returning.
I expect the house to be spotless upon my return.

Issue

To deliver by authority.
The court issued a writ of mandamus.

Return

A return ticket.
Do you want a one-way or a return?

Issue

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.

Return

An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
Last year there were 250 returns of this product, an improvement on the 500 returns the year before.

Issue

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.

Return

An answer.
A return to one's question

Issue

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.

Return

An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
Election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold

Issue

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
If the kingShould without issue die.

Return

Gain or loss from an investment.
It yielded a return of 5%.

Issue

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.

Return

A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
Hand in your return within 90 days of the end of the tax year.

Issue

A discharge of flux, as of blood.

Return

(computing) A carriage return character.

Issue

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.

Return

(computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.

Issue

The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
Come forth to viewThe issue of the exploit.
While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue.

Return

(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.

Issue

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; a point of contention; a matter in controversy.

Return

A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
The boiler technician had to cut out the heating return to access the safety valve.

Issue

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.
As much at issue with the summer dayAs if you brought a candle out of doors.

Return

A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.

Issue

To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
From it issued forced drops of blood.

Return

(American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.

Issue

To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

Return

(cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.

Issue

To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

Return

(architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

Issue

To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee.

Return

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
On their embattled ranks the waves return.
If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom.
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Issue

To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

Return

To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
With the yearSeasons return; but not me returnsDay or the sweet approach of even or morn.

Issue

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.

Return

To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned.

Issue

To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

Return

To revert; to pass back into possession.
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David.

Issue

In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

Return

To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

Issue

To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

Return

To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye.

Issue

To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

Return

To repay; as, to return borrowed money.

Issue

To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

Return

To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.

Issue

An important question that is in dispute and must be settled;
The issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone
Politicians never discuss the real issues

Return

To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.

Issue

One of a series published periodically;
She found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom

Return

To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.

Issue

The provision of something by issuing it (usually in quantity);
A new issue of stamps
The last issue of penicillin was over a month ago

Return

To report, or bring back and make known.
And all the people answered together, . . . and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

Issue

Some situation or event that is thought about;
He kept drifting off the topic
He had been thinking about the subject for several years
It is a matter for the police

Return

To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.

Issue

Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

Return

Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.

Issue

The immediate descendants of a person;
She was the mother of many offspring
He died without issue

Return

To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.

Issue

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
The magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise
His decision had depressing consequences for business
He acted very wise after the event

Return

To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.

Issue

The income arising from land or other property;
The average return was about 5%

Return

To bat (the ball) back over the net.

Issue

The becoming visible;
Not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins

Return

To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.

Issue

An opening that permits escape or release;
He blocked the way out
The canyon had only one issue

Return

The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
His personal return was most required and necessary.

Issue

The act of issuing printed materials

Return

The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
You made my liberty your late request:Is no return due from a grateful breast?

Issue

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;
Publish a magazine or newspaper

Return

That which is returned.
I do expect returnOf thrice three times the value of this bond.

Issue

Circulate or distribute or equip with;
Issue a new uniform to the children
Supply blankets for the beds

Return

An answer; as, a return to one's question.
The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.

Issue

Bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

Return

The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; - applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

Issue

Come out of;
Water issued from the hole in the wall
The words seemed to come out by themselves

Return

The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.

Issue

Make out and issue;
Write out a check
Cut a ticket
Please make the check out to me

Return

An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.

Return

The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

Return

Document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability;
His gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return

Return

A coming to or returning home;
On his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party

Return

The occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction

Return

Getting something back again;
Upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing

Return

The act of returning to a prior location;
They set out on their return to the base camp

Return

The income arising from land or other property;
The average return was about 5%

Return

Happening again (especially at regular intervals);
The return of spring

Return

A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);
It brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher

Return

The key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed

Return

A reciprocal group action;
In return we gave them as good as we got

Return

A tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player;
He won the point on a cross-court return

Return

(American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble

Return

The act of someone appearing again;
His reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited

Return

Come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity

Return

Give back;
Render money

Return

Go back to a previous state;
We reverted to the old rules

Return

Go back to something earlier;
This harks back to a previous remark of his

Return

Bring back to the point of departure

Return

Return in kind;
Return a compliment
Return her love

Return

Make a return;
Return a kickback

Return

Answer back

Return

Be restored;
Her old vigor returned

Return

Pay back;
Please refund me my money

Return

Pass down;
Render a verdict
Deliver a judgment

Return

Elect again

Return

Be inherited by;
The estate fell to my sister
The land returned to the family
The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead

Return

Return to a previous position; in mathematics;
The point returned to the interior of the figure

Return

Give or supply;
The cow brings in 5 liters of milk
This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn
The estate renders some revenue for the family

Return

Submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority;
Submit a bill to a legislative body

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