Pending

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pend \Pend\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Pending}.] [L. pendere.]
     1. To hang; to depend. [R.]
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              Pending upon certain powerful motions. --I. Taylor.


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     2. To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pending \Pend"ing\, a. [L. pendere to hang, to be suspended. Cf.
     {Pendent}.]
     Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspension; as, a pending
     suit.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pending \Pend"ing\, prep.
     1. During; as, pending the trail. [Archaic]
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     2. Until; awaiting; as, no decision will be taken pending his
        arrival.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pending
       adj : awaiting conclusion or confirmation; "business still
             pending"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "pending":
     at issue, awaiting, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, cascading,
     conditional, conditioned, contingent, dangling, dependent,
     depending, depending on, durante, during, falling, falling loosely,
     flowing, forthcoming, hanging, hung, imminent, impendent,
     impending, in abeyance, in question, in suspense, in the balance,
     in the offing, inconclusive, incumbent, jutting, lowering, open,
     over, overhanging, overhung, pendent, pendulant, pendular,
     penduline, pendulous, pensile, projecting, superincumbent,
     suspended, suspenseful, swinging, through, throughout, till,
     unconfirmed, uncounted, undecided, undetermined, unestablished,
     unfinished, unfixed, unsettled, until, untold, up for grabs,
     waiting for, weeping, while