Definition of "issuance"

issuance

noun
countable and uncountable, plural issuances
1. The act of issuing, or giving out.
2. Something issued.
  Quotations
  A cover of Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin" held down the number-96 slot for a week in 1964, but later issuances did not do as well.
  1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 151