pendency
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dən noun, plural pen·den·cies.
the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | dangling |
| 2. | jutting |
| 3. | (of a grammatical construction) incomplete: a pendent nominative is a construction having no verb |
| 4. | pending a less common word for pending |
| —n | |
| 5. | a variant spelling of pendant |
| [C15: from Old French pendant, from pendre to hang; see | |
| 'pendency | |
| —n | |
| 'pendently | |
| —adv | |
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Pendency
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
Results of a pendency hearing may be entered during a resolution period.
We made significant progress towards reducing the backlog and patent pendency, despite continued funding and hiring challenges.
Negotiations will continue throughout the pendency of a case.
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