incumbency
noun
the quality or state of being incumbent.
incumbencies
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pluralof incumbency.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Joe Crowley and Eliot Engel lost their primaries to energetic challengers because they were arrogant and too comfortable in their incumbencies.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
You can’t run for alderman and mayor at the same time, so the mayoral slate didn’t include any of the city’s elected officials, who would have had to rashly sacrifice their incumbencies.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2018
With long incumbencies, said Professor Zimring of the University of California, Berkeley, “innovation is very difficult, and new blood may need new veins and organizational arteries.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
One thinks of time in terms of production schedules and amortizations, the other in terms of incumbencies and election days.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was suggested that some of the revenues of the larger sees should be diverted for the benefit of the smaller incumbencies.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
