At Issue

Definition: At Issue

At Issue

Adjective

1. Now in consideration or under discussion; "regarding the matter in hand".

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Synonyms: At Issue

Contention

Adjective: contending; Verb: together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at issue.

Discord

Subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli; question at issue; (subject of inquiry); vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord.

At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.

Dissent

Adverb: no; at variance, at issue with; under protest.

Eventuality

Adjective: happening; v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis; at issue, in question; incidental.

Inquiry

Question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention; (discord); plain question, fair question, open question; enigma; (secret); knotty point; (difficulty); quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry.

Negation

Adjective: denying;Verb: denied;Verb: contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant; (dissenting); at issue upon.

Opposition

Adjective: opposing, opposed;Verb: adverse, antagonistic; contrary; at variance; at issue, at war with.

Reasoning,

Open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.

Crosswords: At Issue

At Issue (1953)

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Books

• Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime (At Issue) (reference)

• Human Embryo Experimentation (At Issue) (reference)

• Japanese American Internment Camps (At Issue in History) (reference)

• School Shootings (At Issue) (reference)

• The Jury System (At Issue Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. (reference)

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Economic History

Peru

Adequate payment to owners of agricultural lands expropriated by the Peruvian Government in 1968 is still at issue. (references)

Human Rights

Armenia

All trials are public except when government secrets are at issue. (references)

Swaziland

Court-appointed counsel is provided in capital cases or when difficult points of law are at issue. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "at issue": at issue upon ♦ at issue with ♦ at loggerheads at war at issue ♦ be at issue ♦ point at issue ♦ question at issue ♦ the case at issue ♦ the point at issue. Additional references.

Albanian

në shqyrtim, në diskutim (in question). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في صلب الموضوع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

в спора. (various references)

Chinese 

本題 (the point at issue, the subject under discussion). (various references)

Czech

sporný (contentious, controversial, debatable, disputable, disputant, litigious, polemic, questionable, vexed). (various references)

Finnish

riidanalainen (disputable, disputed, subject to dispute). (various references)

French

dans le vif de sujet. (various references)

German

vorliegend (available, existing, on hand). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש� וי במחלוקת (controversial, debatable, moot). (various references)

Hungarian

vitás (contentious, controversial, disputable, disputed, moot, uncertain, vexed), kérdéses (equivocal, in question, pending, problematic, questionable, vexed). (various references)

Italian

in questione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

争点 (point at issue), 問題点 (the point at issue). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうて�" (bluesky, charge, dawn, drill manual, early morning, fill, load, point at issue, sum total of one's marks, total points or score), も�"� いて�" (the point at issue). (various references)

Manx

ayns keisht. (various references)

Pig Latin

atay issueay

Portuguese

em debate. (various references)

Romanian

problemã în litigiu (the point at issue), fi în litigiu (be at issue, litigate), fi în discuţie (be at issue), fi în dezacord (be at issue, disaccord, disagree, diverge, jar). (various references)

Russian 

в ссоре (at loggerheads). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u tom slučaju (issue: at issue, matter: for that matter). (various references)

Spanish

en disputa (in dispute), en cuestión (in question). (various references)

Swedish

vara under debatt (be at issue), vara omstridd (be at issue), vara oense (be at issue, be at odds, be at variance, disagree, discord), tvistefråga (matter in dispute, question at issue), sakfråga (point at issue), frågeställning (framing of a question, problem, question at issue). (various references)

Turkish

söz konusu olan (in question), üzerinde konuşulan. (various references)

Ukrainian

бути різної думки (be at issue), бути предметом обговорення (be at issue). (various references)

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