Betekenis van:
incumbent

incumbent
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • in functie
  • currently holding an office
"the incumbent governor"

Hyperoniemen

incumbent
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
    "it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts"
    incumbent
    Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
      • lying or leaning on something else
      "an incumbent geological formation"
      incumbent
      Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • sporter die vast in een team zit
      • the official who holds an office

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      Voorbeeldzinnen

      1. It is incumbent on us to support him.
      2. The press always has something on the incumbent.
      3. It is incumbent on you to do so.
      4. The company was established in 1950 by the incumbent chairman.
      5. His speeches resemble the straight-to-the-point style of his incumbent.
      6. We all live, at any rate for a time, and the majority of us always, in polygamy. Consequently, as each man needs many women, nothing is more just than to let him, nay, make it incumbent upon him to provide for many women. By this means woman will be brought back to her proper and natural place as a subordinate being.
      7. DONG is the Danish state-owned gas incumbent.
      8. It is therefore incumbent on the Community to act.
      9. Energias de Portugal, SA (EDP) is the incumbent electricity company in Portugal.
      10. The incumbent has prior knowledge of third-party access seekers’ deployment plans.
      11. The merger would remove the best-placed competitor of the incumbent.
      12. Neither did the Commission take account of the public service obligations incumbent on EDF.
      13. Gás de Portugal, SGPS, SA, (GDP) is the incumbent gas company in Portugal.
      14. Stranded costs arise when the incumbent retains costs associated with being an incumbent supplier but is no longer able to recuperate them because new competitors are now servicing the market as a result of liberalisation.
      15. It is incumbent upon the Council to establish the total allowable catches (TAC) by fishery or group of fisheries.