noun
Meaning 1
The state of being incumbent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
incumbency
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
An obligation or duty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A tenure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Benefice, lucrative position or possession.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
the office of an incumbent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation
noun
Meaning 6
a duty that is incumbent upon you
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: duty, responsibility, obligation
noun
Meaning 7
the term during which some position is held
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tenure, term of office
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: term
Narrower terms: presidency, presidential term, administration, vice-presidency, vice-presidential term, episcopate
History
Etymology
From incumbent + -cy.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: incumbència — state of being incumbent
- German: Amt — state of being incumbent
- German: Amtsinhaberschaft — state of being incumbent
- Italian: incombenza — state of being incumbent
- Polish: leżenie — state of being incumbent
- Spanish: incumbencia — state of being incumbent
- Bulgarian: дълг (dǎlg) — obligation or duty
- Bulgarian: задължение (zadǎlženie) — obligation or duty
- Catalan: incumbència — obligation or duty
- French: ressort — obligation or duty
- German: Pflicht — obligation or duty
- German: Aufgabe — obligation or duty
- German: Verpflichtung — obligation or duty
- German: Obliegenheit — obligation or duty
- Italian: competenza — obligation or duty
- Italian: affare — obligation or duty
- Italian: affari — obligation or duty
- Italian: incombenza — obligation or duty
- Polish: obowiązek — obligation or duty
- Portuguese: incumbência — obligation or duty
- Russian: обя́занность (objázannostʹ) — obligation or duty
- Russian: долг (dolg) — obligation or duty
- Spanish: incumbencia — obligation or duty
- German: Amtszeit — tenure
- German: Amt — tenure
- German: Pfründe — tenure
- Polish: kadencja — tenure
- Polish: urzędowanie — tenure
- Russian: пребыва́ние в до́лжности (prebyvánije v dólžnosti) — tenure
- Spanish: cargo — tenure
- Spanish: mandato — tenure
- Spanish: beneficio — tenure
- Spanish: titularidad — tenure
- Bulgarian: бенефиций (beneficij) — benefice, lucrative position or possession
- German: Pfründe — benefice, lucrative position or possession
- Polish: beneficjum — benefice, lucrative position or possession
- Russian: бенефи́ций (benefícij) — benefice, lucrative position or possession