round-table

English

Verb

round-table (third-person singular simple present round-tables, present participle round-tabling, simple past and past participle round-tabled)

1. (transitive) To discuss at a round table conference.
   • 1976, David Anderson, Peter Benjaminson, Investigative Reporting, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 90:

     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.

   • 2010, Claudette Rothman, Gerald L. Jones, Greenwich Secrets, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 314:

     Day after day they read materials and then round-tabled the value of what they could glean from them.