Lexic.us

Definition of Conference table

1. Noun. The table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conference Table

Literary usage of Conference table

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fifty Years of Rapid Transit, 1864-1917 by James Blaine Walker (1918)
"Men of brains and financial might met around that conference table. At the head sat William B. Willcox, chairman of the Commission, usually flanked by ..."

2. Arms--and the Men: Intimate Personal Glimpses of Delegates, Attachés, and by Cyril Arthur Player (1922)
"Among the 25 delegates sitting at the Armament conference table, there are 25 publicists, but only one bona-fide journalist. Luigi Alber- tini is he. ..."

3. The European Office: Office Design and National Context by Juriaan “van” Meel (2000)
"For other features such as the entrance to the workplace, a filing cabinet and a conference table more space is required (see table 7.8). ..."

4. Memoirs of Prince Metternich: 1773-[1835] by Robina Napier, Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich, Gerard W. Smith (1881)
"The sight of this beautiful nature revives the heart which had been stifled at the conference-table. What must my heart be like, that can sit for ever at ..."

5. Diplomat's Dictionary by Charles W. Freeman, Jr. (1995)
"[a legislature] makes of the forthcoming conference table a forum reiterating fixed positions, not an instrument for reconciling differences. ..."

6. An Ideal School: Or, Looking Forward by Preston Willis Search (1901)
"They could speak to each other, sit or stand, change seats at pleasure, go to reference library or conference table, call and conduct their own seminars, ..."

7. The Air-line to Liberty: A Prospectus for All Nations by Gerald Stanley Lee (1918)
"The conference table of the world is going to be at first a stalemate of nations saying beautiful things about themselves. Probably it is not going to make ..."

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