incumbency

1. 1.

   the term during which some position is held

   Synonymstenureterm of office

   Broaderterm

   Narrowerpresidencyvice-presidencyepiscopate
2. 2.

   a duty that is incumbent upon you

   Broaderduty
3. 3.

   the office of an incumbent

   Broaderposition

Other forms of incumbency

plural

incumbencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about incumbency

What does incumbency mean?

incumbency means "the term during which some position is held". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incumbency?

incumbency has 4 syllables: in-cum-ben-cy. The stress falls on "cum". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈkʌmbənsi/.

What is another word for incumbency?

Close synonyms include tenure, term of office. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is incumbency a common word?

incumbency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.