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发行

动词

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issue

verb

Definitions of issue

English

the offering of shares or bonds etc for sale

Standard Life will issue about 70 million bonus shares to about 1.7 million individual shareholders.

English

to produce something official, such as an important document or statement

The Department of Health issued the guidelines after a legal case by the Family Planning Association.