Definition of "pending" []

• Not yet decided or settled; awaiting conclusion or confirmation. (adjective)
• Impending; imminent. (adjective)
• While in the process of; during. (preposition)
• While awaiting; until. (preposition)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The hospital withheld her name pending notification of family members."
• "The public information officer for the Oshkosh police said during a brief news conference that detectives made a positive identification of a male recovered from the river, but were waiting to release his name pending notification and according to the wishes of his family."
• "Photo: #Former Republican Governor Arne Carlson came up with the idea for a nonpartisan summit of former and current lawmakers as a way for Minnesota to better understand what he describes as a pending "economic tsunami.""