tabled

Verb

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

1. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
   • to table fines
2. (archaic) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
   • 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton
     At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni
3. (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
   • tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditationc. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew
4. To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
   • In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.2019 January 16, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, The Guardian

   Synonyms:

   moot, propose

5. (US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
   • The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
6. (metonymically) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.

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