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In the US it means to set it aside for the time being. For example if a bill is tabled in the House of Representatives then it is put aside and not discussed any more.
In the UK and generally in other English speaking countries in means to put forward for discussion. For example a bill is "tabled" in the House of Commons for discussion.
This is an example of the same phrase having opposite meanings depending on where it is used, and a glaring example of how ridiculous our cousins are.
In all seriousness, they famously mean the exact opposite. The Brits and Aussies talk of laying something on the table where all will see it and do something about it, the Americans about doing so, with the implication that it will lie there and be ignored!
During World War 2 a meeting of top Allied commanders nearly broke up in a furious row because both Brits and Americans wanted urgent action on something but one side's expressing this as tabling it was misunderstood by the other side as meaning doing nothing!
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