patentnoun
pending
preposition
 formaluk /ˈpendɪŋ/us
while waiting for something to happen or be decided:
Shares in the internet group were suspended at 0.14p, pending an announcement about the proposed merger.

Examples of pending

pending
Taken all in all, though, it must be seen as the greatest of all the pending threats to present day life.
Cases included new appeals for lawsuits, reminders seeking the quick resolutions of pending cases, and supplementary cases.
The elevation drawings published here are approximate pending the creation of a full set of scale drawings. 18.
At the time of writing physical demarcation of the border in the zone is still pending.
The only way out of this is to maintain a separate stack for pending arguments.
Distinguishing the last pending argument from the next return address on the stack, which heralds a new stack frame.
During this period, the pending arguments simply sit on the stack waiting to be consumed.
To make freshness locally checkable, we would need an additional set holding the free and bound variables of the pending case alternatives.
As explained above, effects also have to be attached to channel types for two or more processes to share information on their pending effects.
A broader consideration of affective response by the authors is still pending.
The infringement procedure was still pending at the time of writing of this article.
When this happens, both the old process and any pending outputs are lost.
At the point in time when suspension was instructed, 3 tasks were being under taken and 1 was pending.
Pending connect requests on the same channel end are granted on a first-come-first-serve basis.
How did he learn about the pending conversation?
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