Incumbent

[ɪn'kʌmb(ə)nt] or [ɪn'kʌmbənt]

解释:

(noun.) the official who holds an office.

(adj.) currently holding an office; 'the incumbent governor' .

(adj.) necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding; 'it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts' .

(adj.) lying or leaning on something else; 'an incumbent geological formation' .

卡蜜拉整理--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

(a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.

(a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.

(a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.

(n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.

编辑:珀西

同义词及近义词：

a. Obligatory, devolving.

n. Holder (of a benefice, &c.).

乔治娜手打

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Pressing, binding, coercive, indispensable, urgent, devolvent, obligatory

ANT:Optional, discretional

手打:洛伊斯

解释:

adj. lying or resting on: lying on as a duty.—n. one who holds an ecclesiastical benefice.—n. Incum′bency a lying or resting on: the holding of an office: an ecclesiastical benefice.—adv. Incum′bently.

校对:瓦珥