"join issue" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "joins issue",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "joining issue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "joined issue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "joined issue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "join issue (third-person singular simple present joins issue, present participle joining issue, simple past and past participle joined issue)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To argue with one another."
      ],
      "id": "en-join_issue-en-verb-plEc~Cse",
      "links": [
        [
          "argue",
          "argue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of two people) To argue with one another."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of two people"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "[W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19-292), Justice Gorsuch dissenting",
          "text": "In one sense, the Court’s decision to pass over this complication may be understandable. After all, none of the parties before us questioned the application of a discovery rule in proceedings below, but joined issue only over how it should work."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(of two parties to a legal proceeding) To agree to argue about a particular legal claim."
      ],
      "id": "en-join_issue-en-verb-Bhd-uDXt",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "proceeding",
          "proceeding"
        ],
        [
          "claim",
          "claim"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) (of two parties to a legal proceeding) To agree to argue about a particular legal claim."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "join issue"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "joins issue",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "joining issue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "joined issue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "joined issue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "join issue (third-person singular simple present joins issue, present participle joining issue, simple past and past participle joined issue)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To argue with one another."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "argue",
          "argue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of two people) To argue with one another."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of two people"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "[W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19-292), Justice Gorsuch dissenting",
          "text": "In one sense, the Court’s decision to pass over this complication may be understandable. After all, none of the parties before us questioned the application of a discovery rule in proceedings below, but joined issue only over how it should work."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(of two parties to a legal proceeding) To agree to argue about a particular legal claim."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "proceeding",
          "proceeding"
        ],
        [
          "claim",
          "claim"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) (of two parties to a legal proceeding) To agree to argue about a particular legal claim."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "join issue"
}