Incumbent Definition

ĭn-kŭmbənt
incumbents
adjective
Imposed as an obligation or duty; obligatory.
Felt it was incumbent on us all to help.
American Heritage
Lying, resting, or pressing with its weight on something else.
Webster's New World
Currently in office.
Webster's New World
noun
incumbents
The holder of an office or benefice.
Webster's New World
(business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
incumbent on
  • depending upon as a duty or obligation
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Incumbent

Noun

Singular:
incumbent
Plural:
incumbents

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Incumbent

  • incumbent on

Origin of Incumbent

  • Middle English holder of an office from Medieval Latin incumbēns incumbent- from Latin present participle of incumbere to lean upon, apply oneself to in- on in–2 -cumbere to recline

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from stem incumbent-, of Medieval Latin incumbēns (“holder of a church position”), from Latin present participle of incumbō (“I lie down upon”).

    From Wiktionary

Incumbent Sentence Examples

  • His ordinary life was that of an officer of the Guards, modified by the ceremonial duties incumbent on him as heir to the throne.

  • The Federalist outcry could only have been silenced by removal of Freneau, or by disclaimers or admonitions, which Jefferson did not think it incumbent upon himself - or, since he thought Freneau was doing good, desirable for him - to make.

  • It is therefore incumbent upon us to do all we can to remove barriers to working class unity.

  • Even the incumbent of a parish is in law a " corporation sole," his benefice a freehold; and until the establishment in 1836, by act of parliament, of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners nothing could be done to adjust the inequalities in the emoluments of the clergy resulting from the natural rise and fall of the value of property in various parts of the country.

  • While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishops Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources.

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