incumbent

Meaning of incumbent

noun
  1. The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.
  2. A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
adjective
  1. Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
    Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.
  2. Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
  3. Prevalent, prevailing, predominant.
  4. 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.
  5. Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
    the incumbent toe of a bird
  6. 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.

Information about incumbent

  • The plural form of incumbent is: incumbents.
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Hyphenation of incumbent

in-cum-bent

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • incumbent is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

incumbent synonyms

Meaning officeholder:

officeholder

Translation of incumbent

Words that rhyme with incumbent

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