take issue with someone Definition

issue
noun

1. The giving out, publishing or making available of something, eg stamps, a magazine, etc.
2. Something given out, published or made available, eg stamps, a magazine, book, etc.
3. One item in a regular series.

Example: the December issue of the magazine
4. A subject for discussion or argument.

Thesaurus: concern, problem, question, point, subject, argument, matter, problem.
5. A result or consequence.

Thesaurus: outcome, result, aftermath, resolution, conclusion, end.
6. formal
Children; offspring.
Thesaurus: progeny, heirs, descendants, young, children, brood.
7. An act of going or flowing out.
8. A way out, outlet or outflow, eg where a stream begins.

verb issued, issuing

1. To give or send out, distribute, publish or make available, especially officially or formally.

Thesaurus: release, circulate, announce, send out; distribute, allot, dispense, assign.
2. To supply them with the required item, eg an official document.

Form: issue someone with something (usually)
intr
3. To flow or come out, especially in large quantities.

Thesaurus: come forth, emerge, proceed, flow out.
Form: issue forth (often)
Form: issue out
4. To end or result in it.

Form: issue in something (usually)
intr
5. To come or descend from them or it; to be produced or caused by them or it.

Thesaurus: originate, arise, spring, stem.
Form: issue from someone (often)
Form: issue from something

Idiom: at issue

In dispute or disagreement.

Under discussion.

Idiom: force the issue

To act so as to force a decision to be taken.

Idiom: join issue with someone (take issue with someone)

To disagree with them.

Idiom: make an issue of something

To make it the explicit subject of an argument or disagreement.

Etymology: 13c: French, from Latin exitus exit.