What does take issue mean?

take issue means "be of different opinions".

What is another word for take issue?

Close synonyms include disagree, differ, dissent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take issue a common word?

take issue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

take issue — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
be of different opinions
“I beg to differ!”
“She disagrees with her husband on many questions”
Synonymsdisagree differ dissent
Narrowerdissent clash contradict

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