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What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
Beth Brooke

Meaning of "incumbent" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INCUMBENT

From Latin incumbere to lie upon, devote one's attention to, from in-² + -cumbere, related to Latin cubāre to lie down.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INCUMBENT

incumbent  [ɪnˈkʌmbənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCUMBENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incumbent can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INCUMBENT 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 incumbent in the English dictionary

The first definition of incumbent in the dictionary is often postpositive and foll by on or upon and an infinitive morally binding or necessary; obligatory. Other definition of incumbent is usually postpositive and foll by on resting or lying. Incumbent is also a person who holds an office, esp a clergyman holding a benefice.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCUMBENT


absorbant
əbˈzɔːbənt
absorbent
əbˈsɔːbənt
accumbent
əˈkʌmbənt
adsorbent
ədˈsɔːbənt
cumbent
ˈkʌmbənt
decumbent
dɪˈkʌmbənt
excubant
ˈɛkskjuːbənt
lambent
ˈlæmbənt
libant
ˈlaɪbənt
nonabsorbent
ˌnɒnəbˈzɔːbənt
nonincumbent
ˌnɒnɪnˈkʌmbənt
perturbant
pəˈtɜːbənt
procumbent
prəʊˈkʌmbənt
recumbent
rɪˈkʌmbənt
resorbent
rɪˈsɔːbənt
sorbent
ˈsɔːbənt
superabsorbent
ˌsuːpərəbˈzɔːbənt
superincumbent
ˌsuːpərɪnˈkʌmbənt
titubant
ˈtɪtjʊbənt
unabsorbent
ˌʌnəbˈzɔːbənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCUMBENT

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCUMBENT

accident
adolescent
advertisement
agent
agreement
apartment
assessment
bent
bowbent
client
comment
component
content
current
department
Derbent
development
hellbent
inbent
unbent

Synonyms and antonyms of incumbent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INCUMBENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «incumbent» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of incumbent

Translation of «incumbent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCUMBENT

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

Translator English - Chinese

在职者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

titular del cargo
570 millions of speakers

English

incumbent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अवलंबी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحالي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

действующий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

titular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শায়িত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

titulaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyandang jawatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Amtsinhaber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

現職者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

현직자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Saiki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đương nhiệm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பதவியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पदाधिकारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

görevdeki
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

titolare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zasiedziały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чинний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

revin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατεστημένων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

plig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

åligger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

påhviler
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of incumbent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUMBENT»

The term «incumbent» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.854 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCUMBENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «incumbent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «incumbent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «INCUMBENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word incumbent.
1
Marc Andreesen
Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
2
Alice Stone Blackwell
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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Beth Brooke
What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
4
Susan Collins
It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.
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Tom Daschle
It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.
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John Edwards
I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
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Ronan Farrow
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
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Al From
In 1996, President Clinton put together a detailed agenda called 'A Bridge to the 21st Century' that told voters why, in his words, 'rehire him' for another four years. That's the right way for an incumbent president to run for re-election.
9
Paul Gillmor
I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCUMBENT»

Discover the use of incumbent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incumbent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Challenging the Incumbent: An Underdog's Undertaking
Courage, commitment, determination, and ego make first-time candidates run&BAD:hellip; But what does it take to make them win?Edward Sidlow&BAD:rsquo;s new case study, Challenging the Incumbent: An Underdog&BAD:rsquo;s Undertaking, animates ...
Edward Sidlow, Lance Pressl, Philip M. Crane, 2004
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The Incumbent
An abduction...a trail of disturbing clues.
Alton L. Gansky, 2010
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The Incumbent
And he needs answers -- fast. Why, during the closing stages of a cliffhanger reelection campaign, did the incumbent want to play golf with Jack, a man he'd never met?
Brian McGrory, 2003
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Mammoth Books presents The Case of the Incumbent Invalid
It was in early January 1885 when Holmes and Watson were first embroiled in the question of Lady Abernatty's possible murder.
Claire Griffen, 2012
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In the Company of Niche Firms: Examining how Incumbent Firms ...
Put together, it will seem that niche firms can be specialized in numerous dimensions, and can do so in terms of how the differ from other firms in their competitive space such as generalist, incumbent firms. As previous niche research has ...
Ikenna S. Uzuegbunam, 2008
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Big Fishes Make the Best Sushi: Establishing Incumbent ...
Pasi A. Pietikainen. Valleys)” and further “The 00-Agents”) that create windows of opportunities for those Rising-Stars that have optimized their businesses to fill them and come off as having offerings as complementary solutions to the ...
Pasi A. Pietikainen
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Competition Policy: Theory and Practice
Again, the potential entrant does not know whether the incumbent has low costs ( strong) or high costs (weak), and the incumbent will try to exploit this uncertainty to deter entry. The first signalling model is due to Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982b) ...
Massimo Motta, 2004
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Business Economics
The first move is taken by the incumbent who has the choice either to attempt to deter entry or to remain passive and let the entrant make the first move. The sequence of moves following either choice is described by each of the two main ...
Maria Moschandreas, 2000
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The Incumbent Tea Party
How many of us truly research the issues before we go in the voting booth? this is why it is so important to vote out the incumbent. If for just one election, we all go out during the primaries and vote for the other guy, if we replace the majority of ...
Dale Young, 2011
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Are Predatory Commitments Credible?: Who Should the Courts ...
In brief, an equilibrium value for this critical fixed cost will be such that the implied market value for the incumbent must be consistent with the entrant using FC* as the critical cost level. Cross-trading profits from changes in the incumbent's ...
John R. Lott, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCUMBENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term incumbent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Incumbent, Jailed Politician Among Belarus Candidates - ABC News
A dozen candidates have filed for October's presidential election in Belarus, including the authoritarian incumbent who has ruled for 21 years ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
2
NPP primaries: Incumbent MP re-endorsed after court ordered …
He had obtained a total of 387 votes, losing to the incumbent, Kwesi Ameyaw-Kyeremeh, who had 388 votes in the keenly contested election. «Citifmonline, Jul 15»
3
Holyoke Ward 4 Council race of incumbent Jossie Valentin vs. Kurt …
Holyoke Ward 4 Council race of incumbent Jossie Valentin vs. Kurt Bordas revived. kurt.jossie2.jpg. Kurt M. Bordas, left, candidate for Holyoke ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
4
Incumbent hit with records requests as opponent drops out of …
With the informal withdrawal of his opponent for Sammamish City Council Position 4, incumbent Councilman Ramiro Valderrama-Aramayo will ... «Sammamish Review, Jul 15»
5
The Morning Download: Incumbent Intel Profits Despite Shift to …
Good morning. Intel INTC -0.36% Corp. profits beat expectatations, despite a drop in revenue. That's because the company has found a way to ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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Premiere: Ricardo Donoso - 'Incumbent Operator' | News | Clash …
Clash is able to premiere 'Incumbent Operator' and it's a stripped down piece of electronic production with an element of granulated noise. Check it out now. «Clash Magazine, Jul 15»
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1st District challenger outraises incumbent Huelskamp | KSN-TV
Tim Huelskamp outraised the incumbent last quarter and is closing the fundraising gap between the two. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports ... «KSN-TV, Jul 15»
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Joseph Wilkinson, lone opponent to incumbent Jamie Grant in HD …
Little-known political novice Joseph Wilkinson was never much of a threat to the incumbency of Republican state Rep. Jamie Grant of Tampa, ... «SaintPetersBlog, Jul 15»
9
Hospital District 1, Commissioner 5: Two challenge incumbent's seat …
Incumbent Michael Smith has two challengers to his seat on the Kittitas Valley Healthcare Board of Commissioners. Matthew Altman and ... «Daily Record, Jul 15»
10
Incumbent Ron Johnson runs as outsider as GOP defends Senate …
Incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., faces one of the toughest re-election fights of any Republican in the U.S. Senate for 2016. His race is ... «Washington Examiner, Jul 15»

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