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incumbence

incumbence is the alternative form of incumbency.

Meaning of incumbency

Noun

incumbency (countable and uncountable, plural incumbencies)

  1. The state of being incumbent.
  2. An obligation or duty.
  3. A tenure.
  4. (figuratively) Benefice, lucrative position or possession.
    • The early antitrust reformers warned that even beyond its effect on prices, economic power could buy influence in Congress. Monopolies don’t just dominate their own industries, Justice Louis Brandeis said in 1933; they monopolize political power as well, which allows them to protect their...2016 October, Derek Thompson, “America’s Monopoly Problem”, in The Atlantic

Forms of incumbence

pluralincumbences

Questions about incumbence

What is incumbence the alternative form of?
Incumbence is the alternative form of incumbency.

Words near incumbence in the dictionary

  1. inculturations
  2. inculture
  3. incultured
  4. incultures
  5. inculturing
  6. incumbence
  7. incumbences
  8. incumbencies
  9. incumbency
  10. incumbent
  11. incumbentess

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