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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of table.

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Examples

  • The proposed amendment was "tabled" - in other words, it was withdrawn.

    Provocations & Pantings 2008

  • At the general assembly held at Edinburgh 1641, Mr. Gillespie had a call tabled from the town of Aberdeen, but the lord commissioner and himself here pled his cause so well, that he was for sometime continued at

    Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

  • It allows a smaller majority - two-thirds rather than three-fourths - of Senators to call a tabled bill back to the full Senate.

    Arbiter Online 2009

  • It allows a smaller majority - two-thirds rather than three-fourths - of Senators to call a tabled bill back to the full Senate.

    Arbiter Online 2009

  • He said its been "tabled," which means it may still be around, but not at the moment, because it's not in the way of Wonder Woman.

    Justice League Movie Dead; Wonder Woman Still Alive! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Joel Silver says JUSTICE LEAGUE movie is "tabled" →

    My Poster Screams of THE SPIRIT! | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • The email from the office of a MP in Palace of Westminster confirming that two questions that I had drafted the previous week on behalf of the City of Durham Credit Union will be 'tabled' in the House to The Chancellor of the Exchequer delighted my clients who are keen to raise the profile of Credit Unions, particularly in the wake of the collapse of Fairpack.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • But then I was told that the project had been "tabled" for reasons that were not explained, and that the Modern Language Association had somehow succeeded in having this money assigned to themselves.

    Writers Behind Barbed Wire Wilson, Edmund 1968

  • The delicate subject was finally "tabled", and when the meeting adjourned and the members walked home, everyone was talking about Miss Baskerville -- the men mostly talking with the men, and the women with the women.

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Page: 4 THE WOMAN'S ERA. and "tabled," "passed," etc., by strictly parliamentary usages that gave credence to the proceedings as being "a Parliamentary Drill," as had been planned by the executive committee.

    The Woman's Era Vol. 3 No. 5 1897

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