incumbent
ਮੌਜੂਦਾ
definition
noun
Voters may look back on an incumbent 's performance in office, and cast a retrospective vote, or may compare what the candidates promise to do if elected to office, and vote prospectively.
the holder of an office or post.
adjective
it is incumbent on all decent people to concentrate on destroying this evil
necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility.
the incumbent president had been defeated
(of an official or regime) currently holding office.
example
Then as now, a majority of the electorate disapproved of the 'incumbent' 's performance.
The very idea of the present 'incumbent' supporting a factory occupation is laughable.
Without question, survival is a basic goal of 'incumbent' regimes of all nation-states; North Korea is no exception.
He is a decent, honest man, though given to prolixity; no genius, but then certainly no worse than the present 'incumbent' .
The trainee pastor, on loan to the church because the resident 'incumbent' has gone off his rocker, is so damp behind the ears he doesn't notice when ladies make passes.
It is a small union and it does not take many votes to defeat an 'incumbent' official.
For 12 months cameras will follow the fortunes of the St Mary Magdalene's, which at present is being looked after by a vicar from a neighbouring parish, as the new 'incumbent' tries to make a difference.
It is difficult to defeat an 'incumbent' governor.
A change in anyone's government gets far more attention than an election that returns the 'incumbent' government to office.
And the 'incumbent' governor of Mississippi is a Democrat.
Needless to say, it implies that the business environment of Korea has deteriorated throughout the final year of the 'incumbent' government.
Notwithstanding widespread fears that the President to-be would be a clone of the present 'incumbent' , the reality may be different.
Yet, the reform drive should not concentrate only on ousting old faces allegedly responsible for the corruption and misadministraion of the 'incumbent' government.
Meanwhile, the legislative districts are designed to protect the 'incumbent' .
‘If we were heads of these localities, we might act in the same way as these 'incumbent' officials did,’ Lee admitted.
Thus, in mulling over a formula for my ideal PM, I found it helpful to consider separately the office, the 'incumbent' , the candidate.
He visited the eclectic congregation systematically and, with the support of the 'incumbent' , initiated weekly Bible studies, men's meetings and other teaching activities.
Later Prime Ministers were unwilling to challenge those interests; the present 'incumbent' may be unable to do so.
Each year the 'incumbent' officials perform ceremonies to remember the event.
They are also calling on the city executive to stop transferring workers who are aligned with political opponents of 'incumbent' officials.
Unless an 'incumbent' government takes an active interest in improving the supply of public services, benign neglect will inevitably lead to a gradual deterioration.
Eleven years after he took up the Festival's reins, with two more to run on his current contract, he is now the longest-serving 'incumbent' of a post he has described as ‘the best job in the world’.
A provost is the head of the cathedral chapter in a number of the Church of England's more recently created dioceses in which the cathedral is also a parish church and the provost is the 'incumbent' .
Elections in which an incumbent president is running typically are referenda on the job performance of the 'incumbent' .
They were media events, too, staged as much for the international press corps as to put pressure on the 'incumbent' regimes.
It is also in part the result of the greater importance of the Council Presidency and the fact that the 'incumbent' of this Office will often have an agenda which he or she wishes to see achieved.
These models essentially confirm that the level of economic pain we are now feeling is not commensurate with voting an 'incumbent' president out of office.
Instead of highlighting the brutality sustaining the 'incumbent' regimes in power, these analysts blame the victims.
The present 'incumbent' is I think magnificent at not being rattled by anything.
The GNP is standing at the crossroads, facing a road to a permanent opposition party or being reborn as the main pillar to support national politics as the alternative force of the 'incumbent' regime.
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