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conference table

conference table noun: a large piece of furniture designed for group meetings and discussions.

Noun

conference table (plural conference tables)

  1. A large piece of furniture designed for group meetings and discussions.
    • Eight o'clock that night found Inspector Moran, Sergeant Heath, Markham, Vance, and me seated about a small conference-table in one of the Stuyvesant Club's private rooms.1928, S. S. Van Dine, The Greene Murder Case, A Philo Vance Story, page 231
    • It's the usual tactic, isn't it? Divide and rule. Take a few shop stewards, invite them upstairs, sit them round the conference table, make them feel important.2001, Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club, page 22

Forms of conference table

pluralconference tables

Questions about conference table

What does conference table mean?
Conference table means a large piece of furniture designed for group meetings and discussions.
What part of speech is conference table?
Conference table is a noun.
What is the plural of conference table?
The plural of conference table is conference tables.

Words near conference table in the dictionary

  1. conference interpreting
  2. conference matrices
  3. conference matrix
  4. conference room
  5. conference rooms
  6. conference table
  7. conference tables
  8. conference-goer
  9. conference-goers
  10. conferenced
  11. conferencee

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