Pending
['pendɪŋ] or ['pɛndɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) awaiting conclusion or confirmation; 'business still pending' .
Typed by Lloyd--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pend
(a.) Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit.
(prep.) During; as, pending the trail.
Checker: Vernon
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Depending, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, in suspense.
prep. During.
Typist: Melba
Examples
- Soon after a white flag was received, requesting a suspension of hostilities pending negotiations for a surrender. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Dreyer asked Goebel to produce an old lamp, and was especially anxious to find one pending his negotiations with the Edison Company for the sale of Goebel's inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pending these observations, the days were flying by; and Rose was rapidly recovering. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Pending the alterations, as I understand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She wondered that with all this dwelling on the manufactures and trade of the place, no allusion was made to the strike then pending. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A song was pending as he entered, and he dropped into a seat near his hostess, his eyes roaming in search of Miss Bart. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Melba