incumbents

英 [ɪnˈkʌmbənts]

美 [ɪnˈkʌmbənts]

n.  在职者; 现任者
incumbent的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 现任官员;在职官员
  Anincumbentis someone who holds an official post at a particular time.
  1. In general, incumbents have a 94 per cent chance of being reelected.
     通常现任官员有 94% 的几率会再次当选。
  2. Incumbentis also an adjective.
     
  3. ...the only candidate who defeated an incumbent senator.
     唯一击败现任议员的候选人
• ADJ 成为责任的;义不容辞的;必须履行的
  If it isincumbent uponyoutodo something, it is your duty or responsibility to do it.
  1. It is incumbent upon all of us to make an extra effort.
     我们所有人都必须加倍努力。

双语例句

• Members are also able to vote for the club presidents in elections held every five years, incumbents not being able to serve more than two terms.
  会员还可以在五年一次的主席选举时投票，所有会龄至少一年的18岁以上会员都有投票权，当选者不能连任两届以上。
• The incumbents have a point, though: For larger corporations, going full cloud is not simple.
  不过，市场领先者有一点所言极是：对于大公司，完全云化殊为不易。
• Three elections in a row in the US have been, by recent standards, bloodbaths for incumbents.
  按照新近的标准，在美国前三次选举中，获胜者都经过了浴血奋战。
• New players such as Metro Bank, where I serve as a director, are forcing the incumbents to work harder.
  新的市场参与者，比如我担任董事的大都会银行（MetroBank），正迫使已有的参与者更为努力地提供服务。
• With that scope of mission in mind, there are other incumbents.
  即使是从这一使命的范畴来说，也还有其它实干者。
• For years, business software was a dead-end for innovation, dominated as it was by Microsoft, Oracle, and other entrenched incumbents.
  多年来，商业软件是创新的死胡同，被微软（Microsoft）、甲骨文（Oracle）和其他根深蒂固的巨头所主导。
• Be it broadcasting, pharmaceuticals, banking or insurance, my experience has been that the rules favour incumbents.
  根据我的经验，不论是广播、制药、银行还是保险行业，规则都是有利于现有企业的。
• In the worst case, software development would be relegated to a handful of government-friendly incumbents.
  在最坏的情况下，软件开发将被少数几家与政府关系密切的老牌公司掌控。
• Economic woes contribute to the unpopularity of incumbents but investors are more worried about the other direction of causality will weak governments be bad for the economy and finance?
  经济灾难使得弱政府俱乐部的现有会员不受欢迎。但投资者更担心的是另一个因果关系：弱政府会不会对经济和金融不利？
• There are signs, however, that the electorate is not always hell-bent on chucking out incumbents.
  不过，也有迹象显示，选民们并不总会执意把现任首席部长赶下台。