Meaning & use
pendency
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The state of being pending, undecided, or awaiting resolution, especially in legal or administrative matters.
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During the pendency of the lawsuit, both companies avoided public comment.
The patent's pendency lasted nearly three years before it was finally approved.
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A formal term almost exclusively used in legal, business, or bureaucratic writing.
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