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The phrase "a closed door round table" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe a private or exclusive discussion format, but the wording is unclear and awkward.
Example: "The committee held a closed door round table to discuss sensitive issues without outside interference."
Alternatives: "private round table" or "exclusive round table discussion".
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The first was a closed-door round table with about 25 supporters paying as much as $32,400 apiece.
Before I joined my first board, I had, like many do, a picture in my head of a kind of King Arthur and the Round Table gathering: wise people assembled behind a closed door, sitting around a table, thinking well-intentioned chivalrous thoughts, having deep discussions about the present and future of organizations, and speaking in a special "thee" and "thou" language.
Charles Dowdle of Franklin was convicted of multiple felonies in 2006 for threatening to kill his girlfriend and chasing her to her sister's house, where he fired a shotgun round through a closed door.
Students weren't allowed into the neurosurgical theatres, but one day Marsh caught a glimpse through a round porthole in a closed door — "a naked woman, anaesthetized, her head completely shaven, sitting bolt upright on a special operating table".
(7) Never cut to a closed door.
Through a closed door past an outdoor fire pit, a complimentary cocktail made of Ketel One and Red Bull that tastes like Kool-Aid makes the rounds.
I needed more than a closed door.
Her mouth is a closed door".
We are not pushing at a closed door".
There, a uniformed officer stands guard at a closed door.
"No one's hiding behind a closed door or cubicle".
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