incumbentadjective
uk/ɪnˈkʌm.bənt/us/ɪnˈkʌm.bənt/[ before noun ] officially having the named position:
The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- office junior
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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be incumbent on/upon sb formal
to be necessary for someone:
She felt it incumbent upon/on her to raise the subject at their meeting.
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Essential or necessary
- a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do idiom
- basically
- basis
- be a question of doing sth idiom
- business-critical
- dependence
- if/when push comes to shove idiom
- imply
- indispensable
- inherent
- integral
- interdependent
- needed
- needful
- occasion
- on a need-to-know basis idiom
- owe
- owe it to yourself idiom
- underlying
- warrant
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incumbentnoun [ C ]
uk/ɪnˈkʌm.bənt/us/ɪnˈkʌm.bənt/the person who has or had a particular official position:
the first/last/previous incumbent
The present incumbent (of the post) is due to retire next month.
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Employees & colleagues
- acquihire
- appointee
- associate
- career woman
- co-worker
- colleague
- hire
- hireling
- homeworker
- mate
- new blood
- new broom
- operative
- payroll
- shadow
- staffer
- underling
- wage earner
- worker
- working man/woman/person
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