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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To issue again, especially to make available again.
  • intransitive verb To come forth again.
  • noun A second or subsequent issue, as of a book.
  • noun A reprinting of postage stamps from unchanged plates.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A second, or renewed issue: as, the reissue of old notes or coinage.
  • To issue or go forth again.
  • To issue, send out, or put forth a second time: as, to reissue an edict; to reissue bank-notes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To issue a second time.
  • noun A second or repeated issue.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To issue again.
  • verb To reprint a series of postage stamps from old plates.
  • verb In patent law: to permit a patent with ministerial errors to be corrected and enforced for the remainder of the original term of the patent.
  • noun Something that has issued, or been issued again.
  • noun A second or subsequent printing of postage stamps from old plates.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb issue (a new version of)
  • verb print anew
  • noun a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale

Etymologies

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re- +‎ issue

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