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com\ufffdplex (km-plks, kmplks)
adj.
Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.
Composed of two or more units: a complex carbohydrate.
Involved or intricate, as in structure; complicated.
Grammar.
Consisting of at least one bound form. Used of a word.
Consisting of an independent clause and at least one other independent or dependent clause. Used of a sentence.
n. (kmplks)
A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts: a complex of cities and suburbs; the military-industrial complex.
In psychology, a group of related, often repressed ideas and impulses that compel characteristic or habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior. No longer in scientific use.
An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear.
Medicine. The combination of factors, symptoms, or signs of a disease or disorder that forms a syndrome.
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is\ufffdsue (sh)
n.
The act or an instance of flowing, passing, or giving out.
The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by an office or official group: government issue of new bonds.
Something produced, published, or offered, as:
An item or set of items, as stamps or coins, made available at one time by an office or bureau.
A single copy of a periodical: the May issue of the magazine.
A distinct set of copies of an edition of a book distinguished from others of that edition by variations in the printed matter.
A final result or conclusion, as a solution to a problem.
Proceeds from estates or fines.
Something proceeding from a specified source: suspicions that were the issue of a deranged mind.
Offspring; progeny: died without issue.
A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute: legal and moral issues.
A matter of public concern: debated economic issues.
A misgiving, objection, or complaint: had issues with the plan to change the curriculum.
The essential point; crux: the issue of how to provide adequate child care.
A culminating point leading to a decision: bring a case to an issue.
Informal. A personal problem or emotional disorder: The teacher discussed the child's issues with his parents.
A place of egress; an outlet: a lake with no issue to the sea.
Pathology.
A discharge, as of blood or pus.
A lesion, wound, or ulcer producing such a discharge.
Archaic. Termination; close.
v. is\ufffdsued, is\ufffdsu\ufffding, is\ufffdsues
v. intr.
To go or come out. See Synonyms at appear.
To accrue as proceeds or profit: Little money issued from the stocks.
To be born or be descended.
To be circulated or published.
To spring or proceed from a source. See Synonyms at stem1.
To terminate or result.
v. tr.
To cause to flow out; emit.
To circulate or distribute in an official capacity: issued uniforms to the players.
To publish: issued periodic statements.
Idioms:
at issue
In question; in dispute: \ufffdMany people fail to grasp what is really at issue here\ufffd (Gail Sheehy).
At variance; in disagreement.
join issue
To enter into controversy.
Law To submit an issue for decision.
take issue
To take an opposing point of view; disagree.
In what part of the definition means we cannot deal with the complex issues by taking out the root cause? Take out the leaders, and the followers will crumble. Find the leaders of the terrorists, get the goods on them, capture or kill them, and then the followers get low morale and ungroup.