Currently pending or awaiting resolution together with something else; hanging together in legal or administrative limbo.
From co- (together) plus pending (from Latin pendere, 'to hang'). A relatively modern term used in legal and administrative contexts.
Lawyers use 'copending' to describe multiple lawsuits that are related and waiting—they're literally 'hanging together' until a judge decides what happens to all of them at once!
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