on the table

1. 1.

   able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise

   “negotiable demands”

   “the proposal is still on the table”

   Synonymsnegotiable

   Similarflexible

Questions about on the table

What does on the table mean?

on the table means "able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise".

What is another word for on the table?

Close synonyms include negotiable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is on the table a common word?

on the table is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.