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means The arrangement of chairs and spots assigned to people at an event, which somehow carries more diplomatic weight than most actual diplomacy.

from From 'seat,' tracing back to the Old English 'sittan' — to sit — itself from a very old Germanic root shared across the family tree, which connects further back to the ancient Indo-European root 'sed-,' meaning to sit, the same root that gives us 'sedentary' and 'session.' 'Seating' as the act or arrangement of providing seats is a later formation, built the ordinary way English builds nouns from verbs — but the word's quiet reach into social hierarchy (head of the table, far end of the room) is just human nature doing what it always does with furniture.