Ausstellende

Ausstellende is the present participle of the German verb ausstellen and is used as an attributive adjective to describe a person, entity, or institution that issues something or displays something. The meaning depends on the context: in administrative and legal language it typically refers to the authority or office responsible for issuing documents, licenses, or certificates; in cultural or commercial contexts it can denote someone or something that is displaying or exhibiting items.

In usage, ausstellende often appears before a noun in formal phrasing. For example, die ausstellende Behörde bezeichnet jene Behörde, die ein Dokument ausstellt, und ein ausstellender Beamter refers to a staff member who issues documents. In exhibition contexts, eine ausstellende Galerie kann eine Galerie bezeichnen, die Exponate präsentiert oder organisiert. It is important to distinguish ausstellende from related nouns: Aussteller denotes the exhibitor or issuer as a person or entity, Ausstellung means an exhibition, and ausgestellt is the past participle used to describe something that has already been issued or displayed.

Grammatically, ausstellende is the participle I form combined with adjective endings to agree with the noun it modifies, as in der ausstellende Beamte or die ausstellende Behörde. In everyday speech the term is most common in formal or bureaucratic prose, where precise reference to the issuing authority or the act of display is needed.

See also: ausstellen, Aussteller, Ausstellung, ausgestellt.