pending
Use Pending in a sentence
dɪŋ preposition
1.
while awaiting; until: pending his return.
2.
in the period before the decision or conclusion of; during: pending the negotiations.
adjective
3.
remaining undecided; awaiting decision or settlement; unfinished: pending business; pending questions; pending litigation.
4.
about to take place; impending.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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pend (pɛnd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to await judgment or settlement |
| 2. | dialect to hang; depend |
| —n | |
| 3. | (Scot) an archway or vaulted passage |
| [C15: from Latin pendēre to hang; related to Latin pendere to suspend] | |
| pending (ˈpɛndɪŋ) | |
| —prep | |
| 1. | while waiting for or anticipating |
| —adj | |
| 2. | not yet decided, confirmed, or finished: what are the matters pending? |
| 3. | imminent: these developments have been pending for some time |
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Word Origin & History
pending
1642, "during, in the process of," prep. formed from root of Fr. pendant "during," lit. "hanging," prp. of pendere "to hang, to suspend" (see pendant). Meaning patterned on a secondary sense of L. pendente "not decided," lit. "hanging," in legal phrase pendente lite "while
the suit is pending." Use of the prp. before nouns caused it to be regarded as a preposition.
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Example sentences
Zealous anti-nuclear lobbyists and a mal-informed government have created the pending energy crisis.
Any image that raises rights-infringement questions will be removed from the site pending further investigation.
The rest of the recipe is a secret while the group's patent is pending.
Secondly, every prisoner captured in war of any kind may have information related to pending attacks.
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