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Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.
Thomas E. Mann

Meaning of "incumbency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INCUMBENCY

incumbency  [ɪnˈkʌmbənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCUMBENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incumbency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INCUMBENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Incumbent

The incumbent, in politics, is the existing holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent. For example, in the 2012 United States presidential election, Barack Obama was the incumbent, because he had been the president in the previous term while the election sought to determine the president for the current term. A race without an incumbent is referred to as an open seat.

Definition of incumbency in the English dictionary

The definition of incumbency in the dictionary is the state or quality of being incumbent. Other definition of incumbency is the office, duty, or tenure of an incumbent.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCUMBENCY


absorbancy
əbˈzɔːbənsɪ
absorbency
əbˈzɔːbənsɪ
accumbency
əˈkʌmbənsɪ
agency
ˈeɪdʒənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
consultancy
kənˈsʌltənsɪ
currency
ˈkʌrənsɪ
decumbency
dɪˈkʌmbənsɪ
efficiency
ɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
emergency
ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
frequency
ˈfriːkwənsɪ
lambency
ˈlæmbənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
pregnancy
ˈprɛɡnənsɪ
recumbency
rɪˈkʌmbənsɪ
superincumbency
ˌsuːpərɪnˈkʌmbənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
titubancy
ˈtɪtjʊbənsɪ
transparency
trænsˈpærənsɪ
vacancy
ˈveɪkənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCUMBENCY

inculpability
inculpable
inculpableness
inculpably
inculpate
inculpation
inculpative
inculpatory
incult
incumbencies
incumbent
incumbently
incumber
incumbrance
incunable
incunabula
incunabular
incunabulist
incunabulum
incur

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCUMBENCY

advertising agency
competency
constituency
contingency
deficiency
dependency
energy efficiency
estate agency
fluency
high frequency
high-frequency
latency
low frequency
news agency
presidency
proficiency
residency
sufficiency
travel agency
urgency

Synonyms and antonyms of incumbency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «incumbency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCUMBENCY

Find out the translation of incumbency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of incumbency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «incumbency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

在职
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incumbencia
570 millions of speakers

English

incumbency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सत्ता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شغل الوظائف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

укомплектованность штатов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incumbência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শায়িত অবস্থা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

titularisation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyandang kerabat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Obliegenheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

在任期間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

성직
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Incumbency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người được hưởng lộc thánh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆட்சியில் இருந்தவர்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सत्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zorunluluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incumbency
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Okres pełnienia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

укомплектованість штатів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

incumbency
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θητεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

predikant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monopol
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

incumbency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incumbency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUMBENCY»

The term «incumbency» is regularly used and occupies the 107.842 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUMBENCY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incumbency

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3 QUOTES WITH «INCUMBENCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word incumbency.
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Thomas E. Mann
Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.
2
Eric Swalwell
The power of incumbency cannot be underestimated.
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Shashi Tharoor
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCUMBENCY»

Discover the use of incumbency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incumbency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reassessing the Incumbency Effect
This book argues that House incumbents have not improved their electoral fortunes in recent decades.
Jeffrey M. Stonecash, 2008
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Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices
Styles (incumbency, challenger, and incumbent / challenger) are a product of whatever candidates and their staffs believe is needed at a particular time within the context of their particular campaign. Therefore, the best way to understand them ...
Judith S. Trent, Robert V. Friedenberg, Robert E. Denton Jr., 2011
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The American Campaign, Second Edition: U.S. Presidential ...
Does presidential incumbency make a difference to presidential elections and, more specifically, to the effects of the campaign on the election results? The answer to this question may not be so simple. The advantages of presidential ...
James E. Campbell, 2008
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Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century
The analysis as a whole, despite examining different years with differently specified models, strongly concurs with Abramowitz's findings. See Abramowitz, " Incumbency, Campaign Spending, and the Decline of Competition in U.S. House  ...
Sunil Ahuja, Robert E. Dewhirst, 2003
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Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal ...
From these results, we reject the first possible outcome described above: state population does not simply enhance the incumbency advantage of senators from less populous states. Thus these findings demand that we revise conventional ...
Frances E. Lee, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, 1999
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Legal Opinions in International Transactions: Report of the ...
In the typical US incumbency certificate, the certifying corporate officer states that the signature specimen of certain officers appearing in the incumbency certificate are the genuine signatures of such officers. The corporate officers whose ...
Michael Gruson, Stephan Hutter, Michael Kutschera, 2003
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The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform
Other measures also show that the number of competitive House seats declined from 1992 to 2000.18 Political scientists often define incumbency advantage in a single legislative district as the difference between the proportion of the vote ...
John Samples, 2008
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Politicians and Party Politics
Politicians. as. Prize. Fighters. Electoral. Selection. and. Incumbency. Advantage. John. Zaller. Leading accounts of congressional politics stress the capacity of House incumbents to develop strong ties with their constituents. By dint of ...
John Gray Geer, 1998
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Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of ...
The Incumbency Advantage If one measures the incumbency advantage by the expected loss suffered by a party when one of its incumbents involuntarily departs, the Democrats never show a statistically significant incumbency advantage.
Gary W. Cox, Jonathan N. Katz, 2002
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Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment: ...
At lower levels of male incumbency, a high clientelist influence in the political life leads to an increase in male parliamentary dominance, but when male incumbency is already pronounced, clientelism simply helps to maintain it. Where male ...
Elin Bjarnegård, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCUMBENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incumbency is used in the context of the following news items.
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DRESCHEL: More questions than answers regarding ranked ballots
It's an open question how ranked ballots might impact the incumbency advantage. It's also an open question of how the change might come ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
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More questions than answers regarding ranked ballots
It's an open question how ranked ballots might impact the incumbency advantage. It's also an open question of how the change might come ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
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A new old face : Rutland Herald Online
Incumbency has its advantages, but it has disadvantages as well. Smith could be tarred by association with some of Shumlin's more ... «Rutland Herald, Jul 15»
4
Chandrababu rings a false alarm | Business Line
... 2004 loss in the absence of any other hard evidence seems to be plain voter discontent and anti-incumbency uniformly across all sections. «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
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(NASDAQ:INTC), QUALCOMM Incorporated, (NASDAQ:QCOM)
Improved Incumbency Advantage: Provides additional incentives based on the program level by increasing the discount for resellers as the ... «wsnewspublishers, Jul 15»
6
State-funded iftar stirs debate - The Telegraph
... but the arrangement is believed to have been in place since the latter half of the 1980s, with a five-year break during Kalam's incumbency. «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»
7
Getting to know Catharine Baker | News | PleasantonWeekly.com |
The election landscape will be different for Baker in 2016. She'll have one term and incumbency under her belt, and a bullseye on her back. «Pleasanton Weekly, Jul 15»
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Office holders in elected Rock Island County positions often not …
Officials appointed to their jobs before an election do gain the advantage of incumbency in the next election if they choose to run. Sheriff Gerry ... «Quad-Cities Online, Jul 15»
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Continuity and Change (2), Articles | THISDAY LIVE
... and gestures in his prior incumbency of offices of national political prominence. I argued that he should feel obliged to demonstrate sensitivity ... «THISDAY Live, Jul 15»
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Performance legitimacy
Incumbency helps in other ways too. The electoral-boundaries review committee, for example, is suspected of tinkering with constituencies to ... «The Economist, Jul 15»

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