Incumbency

Definitions: Incumbency

Incumbency

Noun

1. The term during which some position is held.

2. A duty that is incumbent upon you.

3. The office of an incumbent.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "incumbency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Note: Incumbency \In*cum"ben*cy\, noun; plural Incumbencies. [From Incumbent.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Incumbency

Business

Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking.

Office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service; (servitude); engagement; undertaking.

Churchdom

Pontificate, primacy, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy; prelacy; bishopric, bishopdom; episcopate, episcopacy; see, diocese; deanery, stall; canonry, canonicate; prebend, prebendaryship; benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson, living, cure; rectorship; vicariate, vicarship; deaconry, deaconship; curacy; chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship; cardinalate, cardinalship; abbacy, presbytery.

Crosswords: Incumbency

Books

• A Case Study in Us Urban Leadership: The Incumbency of Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier (reference)

• Missed Opportunity: Gore, Incumbency, and Television in Election 2000 (reference)

• The Presidential Election of 1996: Clinton's Incumbency and Television (reference)

• When Incumbency Fails: The Senate Career of Mark Andrews (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Colombia

They should also submit documents proving their existence and incumbency, whatever is the case. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Under legislation intended to enhance stability, new governments remain immune from no-confidence votes for the first 18 months of their incumbency. (references)

Papua New Guinea

New governments are protected by law from votes of no confidence for the first 18 months of their incumbency, and no votes of no confidence may be moved in the 12 months preceding a national election. (references)

Political Rights

Singapore

Nonetheless, the opposition continued to criticize what it describes as the long-ruling PAP's abuse of its incumbency advantages to extensively handicap opposition parties. (references)

United Arab Emirates

By tradition rulers and ruling families are presumed to have the right to rule, but their incumbency ultimately depends on the quality of their leadership and their responsiveness to their subjects' needs. (references)

Gabon

President Bongo, who has been President since 1967, was reelected for another 7-year term in a December 1998 election marred by irregularities that generally favored his incumbency, including incomplete and inaccurate electoral lists and the use of false documents to cast multiple votes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "incumbency": during his incumbency. Additional references.

Ending with "incumbency": anti-incumbency.

Albanian

qenie në detyrë, mbajtje posti. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تولى منصب ما. (various references)

Bulgarian 

служба на енорийски свещеник. (various references)

Chinese 

职责 (Incumbencies). (various references)

Czech

povinnost (business, commitment, devoir, duty, job, liability, obligation, onus, part, responsibility). (various references)

Farsi 

لزوم (Exigency, Necessity, Need, Supply), وجوب , وظیفه (Assignment, Duty, Function, Obligation, Office, Role, Service, Task, Taskwork, Work), تصدی (Charge, Commission, Inning, Tenure), عهده داری (Charge). (various references)

French

période de service, période de fonction. (various references)

German

verpflichtung (bond, booking, commitment, committal, debt, duty, engagement, engaging, enlistment, liability, obligation, responsibility, signing on, signing up, undertaking), pfünde, obliegenheit (duty, obligation), amtzeit (curatorship). (various references)

Greek 

κατοχή αξιώματοσ, θητεία (military service, service, term of office). (various references)

Hebrew 

תפיסות (occupancy, perceptibility). (various references)

Hungarian

kötelesség (charge, devoir, duty, function, obligation, ought, role). (various references)

Indonesian

jabatan (commission, occupation, portfolio). (various references)

Manx

lhie er (bear down, resting on). (various references)

Pig Latin

incumbencyay

Portuguese

incumbência (charge, commission, errand, mission, responsibility, task), obrigação (bond, bond certificate, burden, business, commitment, debenture, debenture bond, debenture stock, debt security, devoir, due, duty, engagement, function, indebtedness, investment bond, job, labor, labour, loan stock debenture, must, obligation, office, onus, ought, promissory, responsibility, shall, trust, undertaking, would), encargo (mandate, mission, obligation, onus, promissory, responsibility, trust, weight), acusatório (accusatorial, accusatory). (various references)

Russian 

долг (debt, devoir, duty, liability, onus, ought). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

položaj (billet, job, lie, location, office, position, racket, site, situation, slot, standing, station, whereabouts), dužnost (duty, obligation, office, part, post, trust). (various references)

Spanish

incumbencia (scope). (various references)

Swedish

innehav av kyrkligt ämbete, pastorat (living, parish, pastorship, vicarage). (various references)

Turkish

zorunluluk (burden, essentiality, exigence, exigency, imperative, indispensability, necessity, obligation, ought, urgency), yükümlülük (charge, compulsion, duty, encumbrance, engagement, function, impost, liability, obligation, onus, ought, responsibility), vazife (commission, mission), görev (appointment, assignment, billet, business, charge, commission, devoir, duty, employment, function, job, mission, office, part, piece of work, position, service, situation, stint, task, work, workings), ödev (assignment, duty, homework, obligation, schoolwork, task, theme). (various references)

Ukranian 

обов'язок (business, devoir, duty, obligation, obligement, office, onus, responsibility, task, tie), бенефіцій, посада (appointment, assignment, berth, billet, capacity, office, place, position, post, seat, work). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trách nhiệm (accountability, blame, onus). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: neumic.

-5 letters: benni, benny, bunny, cecum, cubic, cumin, cynic, ennui, imbue, inbye, meiny, mince, mincy, minny, mucin, numen, yince.

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