pending
If something is supposed to happen but hasn’t happened yet, it is pending, like the pending snowstorm that has everyone scrambling to the store for bread and milk.
The word pending comes from the French pendant, meaning “hanging.” If someone leaves you hanging, you are waiting for a call, a message, a visit — whatever the thing is that's supposed to happen. Pending is a good word to use when something has to happen before something else — like if you are learning to drive, maybe you'll have a car of your own soon, pending your success at passing the test.
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awaiting conclusion or confirmation“business still pending”synonyms:unfinishednot brought to an end or conclusion
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Vocabulary lists containing pending
Where there's a will, there's a motive to solve a murder. When eccentric millionaire Sam Westing dies, he leaves instructions for sixteen people to come to the reading of his will. With a fortune on the line, Westing's death becomes a puzzle they'll race to solve.
In the 1940s, a Louisiana teacher confronts racial prejudice in his community as he counsels a young man on death row.
The alliance between the U.S. and the U.K. in World War II was forged by this document. Understand the words that went into it.