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reissue

nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,259 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: reissues

A reissue is a fresh release of something published before. A reissue on vinyl.

It is the same work rather than a new one, which is what separates it from an edition. A reissue often carries extra material to give people who own it a reason to buy again.

Definitions of reissue

  1. 1nounreissueA fresh release of something published before.C2

    “The reissue sold better than the original had in 1974.”

reissue is a release.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₁ey-

  2. Middle English

    issue

  3. English

    issue

  4. English, today

    reissue

Built from

  • issir · Old French — to exit
  • ex- · Latin — out
  • eō · Latin — go

From re- + issue. issue comes from Middle English issue. From Middle English issue, from Old French issue (“an exit, a way out”), feminine past participle of issir (“to exit”), from Latin exeō (“go out, exit”), from prefix ex- (“out”) + eō (“go”). The legal meaning originated from the concept of "the end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presenting the point to be determined by trial)," leading to the sense of "the controversy over facts in a trial" (early 14th century, Anglo-French). This later extended to mean "a point of contention between two parties" (early 15th century) and more generally, "an important point to be decided" (1836). Consequently, the verbal phrase take issue with emerged in 1797 (preceded by join issue in the 1690s), meaning "to adopt an affirmative or negative stance in a dispute with another." The expression to have issues, meaning "to have unresolved conflicts," dates to 1990.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

reissue in the wild

  • Following the death of Bing Crosby in October 1977, the 1958 RCA Victor LP was reissued with its original title and artwork with the revised catalog number AFL1-1854.

    Fancy Meeting You Here

  • RCA has reissued both Fancy Meeting You Here and Rendezvous on compact disc on the Bluebird and Camden labels, respectively.

    Fancy Meeting You Here

  • In April that year a Jazz Recital with Billie Holiday was recorded, previously a Clef album, now reissued on the new label.

    Verve Records discography

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the issir family

issue

reissue — used about once every 41,009 pages · #14,259 · point at the bar for the others