English-French translations for incumbent

• titulaire
  Nous l'applaudissons en particulier dans l'esprit d'un marché unique libéralisé dans lequel les nouveaux entrants doivent jouer franc jeu par rapport aux titulaires existants. We applaud it particularly in the spirit of a liberalized single market in which the new entrant must have fair play against the existing incumbents.
  Ce qui s’est passé récemment au Belarus n’était qu’un vote entièrement aux mains du gouvernement de l’éternel titulaire du poste, de même que le comptage des votes. What happened recently in Belarus was only a vote, which, along with the counting of the votes, was in the hands of the government of the eternal incumbent.
• en titre
• incomber

Definition of incumbent

• Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office
• Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent
• Prevalent, prevailing, predominant
• Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else
• Being the current holder of an office or a title
• The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office
• A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits

Examples

• Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.
• the incumbent toe of a bird
• If the incumbent senator dies, he is replaced by a person appointed by the governor.

Related words

• incubus
• pincushion
• incursion
• incus
• inculcate
• incurable
• incunabulum
• incubator
• inculpatory