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pending

verbadjectiveprepositioncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpɛndɪŋ//

Awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of pendpresent participle and gerund of pend

adjective

  1. 1

    Awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation.

  2. 2

    Begun but not completed.

  3. 3

    About to happen; imminent or impending.

preposition

  1. 1

    While waiting for something; until.

    Pending the outcome of the investigation, the police officer is suspended from duty.

  2. 2

    During.

    Pending the investigation, the police officer is suspended from duty.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).