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round-tables

round-tables is the third-person singular simple present indicative of round-table.

Meaning of round-table

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.
    • 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...1976, David Anderson, Peter Benjaminson, Investigative Reporting, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 90

Questions about round-tables

What is round-tables the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Round-tables is the third-person singular simple present indicative of round-table.

Words near round-tables in the dictionary

  1. round-robin story
  2. round-robins
  3. round-shouldered
  4. round-table
  5. round-tabled
  6. round-tables
  7. round-tabling
  8. round-tailed muskrat
  9. round-the-clock
  10. round-top
  11. round-tops

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