incumbent
IPA: ɪnkˈʌmbʌnt
noun
- The current holder of an office or title; (specifically, Christianity) the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice.
- (business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
adjective
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
- (botany) Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
- (zoology) Of a body part such as a hair, spine, or wing: bent downwards or otherwise positioned so that it, or part of it, rests on or touches something else; specifically (ornithology), of the hind toe of a bird: fully resting on a support.
- (figurative)
- Being the current holder of an office or a title; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), of an ecclesiastical benefice.
- Oppressive, pressuring.
- Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.
- (poetic) Hanging or leaning over.
- (obsolete) Putting much effort into an activity or some work.
- (obsolete) Weighing on one's mind.
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Examples of "incumbent" in Sentences
- He was the incumbent in the election.
- In 1879 he became the incumbent of the party.
- Two of the incumbent councillors were unchallenged.
- The article is about the office and not the incumbent.
- You do that through what we call incumbent worker training.
- This was considered to be a foregone conclusion for the incumbent.
- The entire election process is skewed in favor of the incumbent regime.
- The execution of the activities is incumbent by the capable key players.
- If the entrant enters, the incumbent can fight or accommodate the entrant.
- If the entrant enters, the best response of the incumbent is to accommodate.
- It's not the similarity of names, however, but the obscurity of the incumbent.
- If the incumbent is a Republican, then my anti-incumbent fever is very strong.
- Meanwhile, the other liberal group trying to defeat the incumbent is the Save the 48th PAC.
- Ones encouragement of the electorate to be cross with the incumbent is the primary component and second is a posture designed to deflect existing disquiet about yourselves.
- They 're trying to, and sort of -- I was in the Eighth District, where Patrick Murphy, the incumbent, two-term incumbent, is facing off against Mike Fitzpatrick, a former congressman.
- Khosla went after what he called "incumbent capitalism," in which government policy and incentives are designed not to encourage competition and innovation, but to protect entrenched incumbent interests, with coal, oil, nuclear, and utility monopolies being the most spectacular beneficiaries of this bias against innovation.
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