at issue

[at issue] {adj. phr.}

1. In dispute; to be settled by debate, by vote, by battle, or by some other contest.

* /His good name was at issue in the trial./

* /The independence of the United States from England was at issue in the Revolutionary War./

Compare: IN QUESTION. 2. Not in agreement; in conflict; opposing.

* /His work as a doctor was at issue with other doctors' practice./

Syn.: AT ODDS.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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