What does round-table mean?
Round-table means (transitive) To discuss at a round table conference..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To discuss at a round table conference..
The freshly printed petitions had been taken over to city hall and "round-tabled." Five or six city employees — all of whom owed their jobs to the machine — sat around a table and passed petition blanks and voter registration lists in a circle. Each person copied every fifth or sixth name from the registration list. That way, the forgeries weren't so obvious.
Day after day they read materials and then round-tabled the value of what they could glean from them.
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Round-table means (transitive) To discuss at a round table conference..
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The freshly printed petitions had been taken over to city hall and "round-tabled." Five or six city employees — all of whom owed their jobs to the machine — sat around a table and passed petition blanks and voter registration lists in a circle. Each person copied every fifth or sixth name from the registration list. That way, the forgeries weren't so obvious.
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