Incumbent

Definition:

  • (a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
  • (a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.
  • (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
  • (a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.
  • (n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

Compare incumbent with other words:

incumbent vs. obligate

forced vs. incumbent

incumbent vs. notorhizal

incumbent vs. incumbently

incumbent vs. procuration

cumbent vs. incumbent

incumbent vs. necessary

binding vs. incumbent

accumbent vs. incumbent

incumbency vs. incumbent

commendam vs. incumbent

incumbent vs. officeholder

incumbent vs. insistent

benefice vs. incumbent

ecclesiastical vs. incumbent

current vs. incumbent

incumbent vs. office

incumbent vs. obligation

incumbent vs. sitting

incumbent vs. recumbent

incumbent vs. swing