Incumbent

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clergy	Dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch, hierarch; ebdomarius; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.
Duty	Verb: be the duty of; be incumbent; Adjective: on, be responsible; Adjective: behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself; (promise); be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility; Noun: be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.
	Adjective: obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent; (severe); behooving; Verb: incumbent on, chargeable on; under obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with.
Government	Office holder, official, occupant of a position; public servant, incumbent; winner.
Gravity	Incumbent, superincumbent.
Height	Overhanging; Verb:; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed; prominent; c.
Inhabitant	Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Incumbent

Familiar Quotations: Incumbent

Historic Usage: Incumbent

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	The power, then, that parents have over their children, arises from that duty which is incumbent on them, to take care of their off-spring, during the imperfect state of childhood. (Second Treatise of Government)
Marbury v. Madison	1803	It is in these words: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as _____, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution, and laws of the United States." (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The priority of the charges established by Article 248 shall, subject to the qualifications made below, be as follows: (a) The cost of the armies of occupation as defined under Article 249 during the Armistice and its extensions; (b) The cost of any armies of occupation as defined under Article 249 after the coming into force of the present Treaty; (c) The cost of reparation arising out of the present Treaty or any treaties or conventions supplementary thereto; (d) The cost of all other obligations incumbent on Germany under the Armistice Conventions or under this Treaty or any treaties or conventions supplementary thereto. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Use in Literature: Incumbent

Non-Fiction Usage: Incumbent

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This committee’s work began just months before Korea’s next presidential election, one which Korean law prohibits the incumbent from running. (references)
		New telecom operators view toll free calls and call management as value-added services that enable them to compete with incumbent telecom carriers. (references)
Civil Liberties	Philippines	Among those arrested was an incumbent Senator. (references)
	Russia	During a court-contested shareholder's meeting on August 24, shareholders replaced former station director Aleksandr Lykov with business executive Dmitriy Kolbasko, who reportedly was favored by the incumbent governor Oleg Korolev. (references)
Economic History	Cyprus	He defeated the incumbent "Prime Minister," Dr. Dervis Eroglu. (references)
Human Rights	Cameroon	Titus Edzoa, former Minister of Health and long-time presidential aide, who had declared himself a candidate to oppose incumbent President Biya in the 1997 election, remains incarcerated, together with Michel Atangana, his campaign manager. (references)
Political Economy	Guyana	Incumbent Bharrat Jagdeo received his own mandate for a 5-year term as President. (references)
	Jamaica	General elections were held in December 1997, returning the PNP led by incumbent Prime Minister, Percival James ("P.J.") Patterson to an unprecedented third term. (references)
Political Rights	Kenya	The incumbent candidate for FORD/Kenya won decisively. (references)
	Colombia	Presidential elections are held every 4 years, with the incumbent barred for life from reelection. (references)
	Belarus	The head of the CEC stated publicly that it would be a "personal tragedy" for her if the incumbent lost. (references)
Women	Dominica	In the civil service, the law establishes fixed pay rates for specific jobs, whatever the gender of the incumbent. (references)
Worker Rights	Kenya	Atwoli, who replaced the incumbent of 15 years, pledged to end corruption within the union and to remove the provisions in COTU's constitution that grant seats on COTU's board to government and ruling party officials. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Spoken Usage: Incumbent

Speeches: Incumbent

Usage Frequency: Incumbent

Expression: Incumbent

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Incumbent

Modern Translation: Incumbent

Language		Translations for "incumbent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që mbështetet, që i bie, në detyrë (on the job). (various references)

Arabic		‏محتل منصبا معينا, ‏متكئ, ‏حامل (bearer, big with child, carriage, expectant, gravid, pregnant, support, trestle), ‏توجب, ‏تحتم, ‏إحتل منصب. (various references)

Bulgarian		титуляр на длъжност, който тежи, който е възложен, който е дълг, който лежи, надвиснал (beetling, imminent, impendent, low-browed, lowering, projecting, projective), енорийски свещеник (parson), лежащ (decumbent, recumbent). (various references)

Chinese		新任. (various references)

Czech		spoèívající na, ležící (lying, recumbent), držitel (bearer, holder, occupant, occupier). (various references)

Farsi		متصدی (Curator, Officer, Titular), ناگزیر (Hobson'schoice, Indispensable, Inevitable, Needful, Perforce). (various references)

French		titulaire, sortant, en exercice. (various references)

German		obliegend (behooving). (various references)

Greek		υποχρεωτικόσ (accommodating, bounden, complaisant, compulsive, obligational, obligatory, obliging), επικείμενοσ (imminent, impending, toward), είναι υποχρέωση, αξιωματούχοσ (dignitary, functionary). (various references)

Hebrew		מוטל (imposed, motel, placed). (various references)

Hungarian		plébános (curate-in-charge, parish priest, parson, rector, vicar). (various references)

Italian		incombente (impendent, impending), obbligatorio (binding, compulsory, mandatory, obligatory). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無所属現 (incumbent memberunaffiliated with a party). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むしょぞくげん (incumbent memberunaffiliated with a party). (various references)

Korean		재직자. (various references)

Manx		saggyrt skeerey (parish priest, Pope of the Greek Church), kianglagh (binding, conditional, obligatory, tying), boandagh (binding, obligatory). (various references)

Pig Latin		incumbentay.(various references)

Portuguese		incumbente, inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, biased, canted, declivous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant), apoiado. (various references)

Romanian		protopop (Archpriest, Dean), preot (Canon, chaplain, clergyman, cleric, curate, devil-dodger, divine, father, minister, padre, parson, pastor, pope, preacher, prelate, presbyter, priest, rector, Reverend, rook, vicar), deţinãtor al unei parohii cu beneficii, apãsãtor (burdensome, hard, harsh, heavy, importunate, onerous, oppressive, overwhelmingly, pressing, severe, tormenting, torturing, trying, unbearable). (various references)

Russian		возлежащий, обязанный (beholden, bound to, duty-bound, indebted, liable, obliged to, owed, owing, under obligation to), налегший всей тяжестью, лежащий (decumbent, lying, recumbent, superincumbent, superjacent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		službenik (clerk, employee, office bearer, office holder, official, servant, service book), službenički (servant), činovnik (office bearer, officer, official, placeholder, red tape). (various references)

Spanish		incumbido, titular (headline, holder, record holder, title, titled, titular), que le incumbe, obligatorio (binding, compulsory, drafted, mandatory, obligational, obligatory, required), beneficiado (beneficiary). (various references)

Swedish		innehavare av kyrkligt ämbete, pastoratsinnehavare. (various references)

Turkish		zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, essential, forced, forcedly, imperative, imperious, indispensable, irremissible, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, obliged, requisite, unavoidable, urgent), yükümlü (amenable, in charge of, liable, obligor), memur (civil servant, government employee, government official, office bearer, office holder, officer, official, public servant, servant, white collar, white collar worker), mahalle papazı (rector, vicar), görevli (attendant, employee, functionary, office bearer, on duty), görevdeki, düşen (down, downward, falling), üzerine düşen. (various references)

Ukrainian		священик з парафією, що лежить (underlying), покладений. (various references)

Vietnamese		là phận sự của ở phía trên, đè lên. (various references)

Welsh		periglor (priest). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Incumbent

Derivations & Misspellings: Incumbent

Rhyming with "Incumbent"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incumbent" (pronounced i'nku"mbunt)
4	-b u n t	absorbent.
3	-u n t	agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Domain	Definition
Satire	INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Asia/Pacific Incumbent Carriers: Going Beyond Their Home Turf [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Diary of John Rous Incumbent of Santon (reference) Never Vote for the Incumbent (reference) Profiles of Incumbent and Emerging ISPs : ASEAN/India [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) The Incumbent (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She did not mean to have her own affections entangled again, and it would be incumbent on her to avoid any encouragement of his.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Republican Senate candidate Mike Taylor, trailing badly in the polls in Montana against the incumbent Democrat, Max Baucus, has dropped out of the race.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	For like injuries it will be incumbent on us to seek redress in a spirit of amity, in full confidence that, injuring none, none would knowingly injure us.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Should those scenes unfortunately recur, the parties to the contest may count on a faithful performance of the duties incumbent on us as a neutral nation, and our own citizens may equally rely on the firm assertion of their neutral rights.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	But I think it's incumbent on us to monitor very carefully the farm situation and continue to work harmoniously with the farmers of our country.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Quotation
Benedict Spinoza	To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	53.08%	181	22,953
Noun (singular)	46.04%	157	25,059
Noun (proper)	0.88%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	341	N/A

Expressions using "incumbent": be incumbent ♦ be incumbent on ♦ be incumbent on smb. ♦ be incumbent upon ♦ incumbent on ♦ it's incumbent on you. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "incumbent": anti-incumbent.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day
the incumbent	17
find incumbent	9
incumbent local exchange carrier	3
incumbent worker	2
bike incumbent	2
define incumbent	2
incumbent long relationship telecom term	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	incumbere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incumbent": incumbents. (additional references)
	Words ending with "incumbent": nonincumbent, superincumbent. (additional references)
	Words containing "incumbent": nonincumbents, superincumbently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incumbent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encumbent, incimbent, incombent, incrumbent, incubent, incumbant, incumbet, incummbant. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-m-n-n-t-u"
	-2 letters: bitumen.
	-3 letters: centum, minuet, minute, muntin, mutine, neumic, tinmen, unbent.
	-4 letters: benni, centu, cubit, cumin, cutie, cutin, ennui, imbue, mince, mucin, numen, tunic, unite, unmet, untie.
	-5 letters: bent, bice, bine, bint, bite, bunn, bunt, bute, cent, cine, cite, cube, cute, emic, emit, etic, etui, item, menu, mice, mien, mine, mint, mite, muni, mute, neum.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-m-n-n-t-u"
	+1 letter: incumbents.
	+3 letters: nonincumbent.
	+4 letters: nonincumbents.
	+5 letters: bioluminescent, noncombustible, superincumbent.
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Incumbent

Definition: Incumbent

Incumbent

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Noun

Specialty Definition: Incumbent

Specialty Definition: Incumbent

Synonym: Incumbent

Synonyms within Context: Incumbent

Clergy

Duty

Government

Gravity

Height

Inhabitant

Crosswords: Incumbent

Commercial Usage: Incumbent

Books

Familiar Quotations: Incumbent

Benedict Spinoza

Historic Usage: Incumbent

John Locke

Marbury v. Madison

Treaty of Versailles

Use in Literature: Incumbent

Emma

Austen, Jane

Non-Fiction Usage: Incumbent

Spoken Usage: Incumbent

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Incumbent

James Monroe

Andrew Jackson

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Incumbent

Expression: Incumbent

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Incumbent

Modern Translation: Incumbent

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Rhyming with "Incumbent"

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