Incumbent
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English
Adjective
Incumbent (comparative more Incumbent, superlative most Incumbent)
- imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office
- Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.
- (geology) resting on something else
- being the current holder of an office
- If the incumbent senator dies, he is replaced by a person appointed by the governor.
Noun
Incumbent (plural Incumbents)- The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or a an elected office.
- (business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
Thesaurus
addressee, artist-in-residence, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, behooving, benefice-holder, beneficiary, binding, bridging, burdensome, chargeable to, commanding, compulsory, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, denizen, dweller, habitant, hirer, holdover, homesteader, house detective, imbricate, impendent, impending, incumbent on, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, ins, intern, jack-in-office, jutting, lame duck, lapping, leaseholder, lessee, live-in maid, locum tenens, lodger, lowering, lumpish, mandatory, massive, necessary, new broom, obligatory, occupant, occupier, office-bearer, officeholder, official, onerous, oppressive, overarched, overhanging, overhung, overlapping, overlying, paying guest, pending, prescribed, president-elect, projecting, public official, public servant, renter, required, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, roomer, shingled, sojourner, spanning, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, superincumbent, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, underlessee, unwieldy
Etymology
From Middle English, from stem incumbent-, of Medieval Latin incumbens (“holder of a church position”), from Latin persent participle of incumbere (“to lie down upon”)
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Latin
Verb
incumbent
- third-person plural future active indicative of incumbō
