incumbent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈkʌmbənt/
incumbent
- Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
- Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.
- All men, truly zealous, will perform those good works that are incumbent on all Christians.
- Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
- two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- to move the incumbent load they try
- Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
- (botany, geology) Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
- (zoology) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
- the incumbent toe of a bird
- Being the current holder of an office or a title.
- If the incumbent senator dies, he is replaced by a person appointed by the governor.
- German: obligatorisch, Pflicht, obliegend
- Italian: incombente, obbligatorio
- Portuguese: incumbente
- Russian: возло́женный
- Spanish: obligatorio, competente
- German: maßgeblich, beherrschend, vorherrschend
- Italian: imminente, incalzante
- German: aufliegend, abstützend
- French: en titre, titulaire
- German: amtierend
- Italian: titolare, in carica
- Portuguese: titular
- Russian: де́йствующий
- Spanish: titular
incumbent (plural incumbents)
- The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.
- 2012, The Economist, October 6, 2012 issue, The first presidential debate: Back in the centre, back in the game ↗
- Mr Obama’s problems were partly structural. An incumbent must defend the realities and compromises of government, while a challenger is freer to promise the earth, details to follow. Mr Obama’s odd solution was to play both incumbent and challenger, jumping from a defence of his record to indignation at such ills as over-crowded classrooms and tax breaks for big oil companies.
- 2012, The Economist, October 6, 2012 issue, The first presidential debate: Back in the centre, back in the game ↗
- (business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
- 2012, The Economist, September 29 2012 issue, Schumpeter: Fixing the capitalist machine ↗
- American capitalism is becoming like its European cousin: established firms with the scale and scope to deal with a growing thicket of regulations are doing well, but new companies are withering on the vine or selling themselves to incumbents.
- 2012, The Economist, September 29 2012 issue, Schumpeter: Fixing the capitalist machine ↗
- French: titulaire
- German: Amtsinhaber, Inhaber, Stelleninhaber
- Italian: in carica, titolare, beneficiario
- Portuguese: titular
- Russian: занима́ющий пост
- Spanish: titular
- German: Platzhirsch, Marktführer
- Russian: устоя́вшийся игро́к
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