incumbent

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  1. adjective Imposed as an obligation or duty; obligatory: felt it was incumbent on us all to help.
  2. adjective Lying, leaning, or resting on something else: incumbent rock strata.
  3. adjective Currently holding a specified office: the incumbent mayor.
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  • The job of a political campaign for a non-incumbent is the same as the job of an advertising campaign for a new product: Encourage trial purchase. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • Numerous other official decisions that just happened to favor the incumbent, her party, and "major" - party domination. —  battlecreekenquirer.com -
  • For an honest judge such as myself, who refuses to campaign at the courthouse, the incumbent is at a disadvantage as the opponent is free to campaign at the courthouse. —  Newspaper Tree
  • Why should we vote for change in the commissioners race, when the incumbent is a democrat who has used his position to siphon money from a program for the NEEDY!! —  www.recordpub.com's Homepage Articles
  • The PRS did not re-nominate its five-term incumbent, Jawah Gerang, who had sided with the businessman-fixer, Sng Chee Hua, against James Masing in the factionalism that broke out after PRS had claimed the mantle from PBDS. —  Malaysia independent news
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  1. 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; see in-2 + -cumbere, to recline.

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  1. from Latin incumben(t-)s, present participle of incumbere, lay oneself down upon, recline upon, from in, on, + cumbere, nasalized form of cubare, lie down: see cumbent. Cf. incubate.
 

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