negotiating table
Noun
Meaning
negotiating table (plural negotiating tables) (usually singular)
A place or table where people carry out negotiations, with the object of reaching an agreement.
Examples
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.