PENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pending mean? 

• PENDING (adjective)
  The adjective PENDING has 1 sense:

1. awaiting conclusion or confirmation

  Familiarity information: PENDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Awaiting conclusion or confirmation

Context example:

business still pending

Similar:

unfinished (not brought to an end or conclusion)

 Context examples 

Pending the alterations, as I understand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Results from a related study of blueberry fields are pending.

(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)

Her only option was to pay a second contractor (almost doubling her costs) and then take the first contractor to court, a case that is still pending.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The technique has proved so successful that Hersam and his team now hold two dozen pending or issued patents.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

EXAMPLE(S): active, cancelled, pending, suspended, terminated, nullified

(Experimental Unit Status Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

It was arranged that the Micawbers should follow us, after effecting a sale of their goods to a broker; that Mr. Wickfield's affairs should be brought to a settlement, with all convenient speed, under the direction of Traddles; and that Agnes should also come to London, pending those arrangements.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

[definition pending]

(Injectable Lipid Complex Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Or if you have a court case pending and it can be decided now or in January, you stand a fantastic chance of seeing it go your way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You will have another reason to work toward finishing up any pending matters early in the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you have an immigration hearing or a legal case pending, the days following this new moon could bring up difficulties you don’t anticipate.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)