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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pend \Pend\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pending}.] [L. pendere.]
1. To hang; to depend. [R.]
Pending upon certain powerful motions. --I. Taylor.
2. To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pending \Pend"ing\, adjective [L. pendere to hang, to be suspended. Cf. {Pendent}.] Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pending \Pend"ing\, preposition During; as, pending the trail.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pending
adjective: 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
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