Issue and Provision

Issue

Issue noun - The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity).

Usage example: a new issue of stamps

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Provision and issue are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Provision" instead the word "Issue" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: issued, issuing, issuance, issuer

Provision noun - Something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends.

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Issue and provision are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Issue" instead the word "Provision" as a verb or a noun.

special	special issue	special provision
particular	particular issue	particular provision
similar	similar issue	similar provision
specific	specific issue	specific provision
Other adjectives: legal, actual, little, infamous, important, famous, key, later, last, medical.

The reason was that at the time, the transit police could issue a ticket (which has a fine of $100) to adults, there was no provision to do so for minors, so if a minor got caught eating, the only thing transit police could do was arrest them.

Source: Useful Notes / Washington Metro
The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act's infamous "indefinite detention" provision caused such an uproar at the time it was signed that Chris Hedges sued the US government over the issue, worried that the slightest support for terrorists would get people like him a one-way ticket to Gitmo.

Source: Beam Me Up Scotty / Politics

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