Overdue vs Pending - What's the difference?
overdue | pending |
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
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awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation
begun but not completed
about to happen; imminent or impending
As adjectives the difference between overdue and pending
is that overdue is late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need while pending is awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation.As a verb pending is
present participle of lang=en.As a preposition pending is
while waiting for something; until.overdue
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}