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at issue

1. Under discussion. The topic at issue is whether or not to implement a new detention policy.

2. In disagreement. They are at issue over the best way to lead the committee.

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at issue

1. In question, under discussion; also, to be decided. For example, Who will pay for the refreshments was the point at issue. [Early 1800s]

2. In conflict, in disagreement, as in Physicians are still at issue over the appropriate use of hormone therapy. This usage, from legal terminology, was defined by Sir William Blackstone ( Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1768), who said that when a point is affirmed by one side and denied by the other, "they are then said to be at issue."

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at ˈissue

the most important part of the subject that is being discussed: The point at issue here is his honesty, not the quality of his work.

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at issue

1. In question; in dispute: "Many people fail to grasp what is really at issue here" (Gail Sheehy).

2. At variance; in disagreement.

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