Antonyms for incumbent
ɪnˈkʌm bəntin·cum·bent

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1. incumbent

   Antonyms:
   optional, discretional

   Synonyms:
   pressing, binding, coercive, indispensable, urgent, devolvent, obligatory

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1. incumbent, officeholderadjective

   the official who holds an office

   Antonyms:
   unneeded, noncurrent, subjacent, unnecessary

   Synonyms:
   officeholder, officer

2. incumbentadjective

   lying or leaning on something else

   "an incumbent geological formation"

   Antonyms:
   unneeded, unnecessary, subjacent, noncurrent

3. incumbentadjective

   necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding

   "it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts"

   Antonyms:
   noncurrent, unnecessary, subjacent, unneeded

4. incumbentadjective

   currently holding an office

   "the incumbent governor"

   Antonyms:
   unnecessary, subjacent, noncurrent, unneeded

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1. incumbentadjective

   Synonyms:
   obligatory, imposed, binding

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1. pihi world laudatory but best till pressed upon

   not currently in power but most likely

   Submitted by federalcourts on September 24, 2019  

How to use incumbent in a sentence?

1. Mary Karapetian Alvord:

   I see people advertising that they’ll Skype with you wherever you are or use Facetime to connect with a patient, there are major problems with that because those services are not HIPAA secure. It's incumbent upon the provider to make sure that the video service they’re using is secure.

2. Gilles Verniers:

   It is reflective of the nervousness of political parties, every party, and the incumbent in particular, will try to maximize anything they think will play to their advantage.

3. Thomas Pepinsky:

   The strength of the incumbent regime must not be underestimated, it retains the legal, infrastructural, and material resources that it has always used to prevail in Malaysia's controlled elections.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   Today's decision is going to make it incumbent upon businesses and governments to be far more specific in their policies governing access to databases -- not just about who is allowed to access particular databases, but about the specific purposes for which those individuals are and are not allowed to access that database, in the process, The Supreme Court on Thursday has made it a lot harder to punish those who misuse databases to which they generally have lawful access -- and a lot more important for database owners to expressly prohibit uses of the data that aren't specifically permitted.

5. Cheri Bustos:

   I wouldn't look into this that this is a progressives versus moderates, or a political newcomer versus a long-term incumbent, this is a unique race in many, many ways.

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