The Most Common Buzzwords · Vice President level

"Table this"

"Table this" means to pause discussion of a topic and return to it later, or sometimes not at all.

Say this instead: set this aside

How "Table this" shows up at work

Often deployed when a meeting is running long, someone has raised an uncomfortable point, or the person in charge simply does not have an answer. In American English it means defer; in British English it means the opposite, which has caused at least one international incident per company.

Buzzword

We should table this for now and revisit it next week.

Plain English

We should set this aside for now and revisit it next week.

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