Round-table
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Round-table is a verb meaning (transitive) To discuss at a round table conference.
Meaning
(transitive) To discuss at a round table conference.
Example Sentences
Day after day they read materials and then round-tabled the value of what they could glean from them.
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.
Word Forms
- round-tables
- round-tabling
- round-tabled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include panel, round, roundtable, table, round top, roundabout.
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