Crossword-Solution: INCUMBENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Incumbency | n. | The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something. |
| Incumbency | n. | That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a burden; a weight. |
| Incumbency | n. | That which is morally incumbent, or is imposed, as a rule, a duty, obligation, or responsibility. |
| Incumbency | n. | The state of holding a benefice; the full possession and exercise of any office. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “INCUMBENCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INCUMBENT, office of an | 1 answer |
| The period during which a person is in office | 1 answer |
| the office of an incumbent | 1 answer |
| rectorship | 4 answers |
| benefice | 4 answers |
| Church office | 7 answers |
| glebe | 26 answers |
| Appoint-ment | 35 answers |
| Berth | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INCUMBENCY (5)
Much and deservedly to my own discredit, therefore, and considerably to the detriment of my official conscience, they continued, during my incumbency, to creep about the wharves, and loiter up and down the Custom-House steps.
General Howard himself disbursed some $15,000,000 during his incumbency; but this includes the bounties paid colored soldiers, which perhaps should not be counted as an expense of the Bureau.
The subscribers to the paper now elect somebody as editor, who, if he accepts the office, is discharged from other service during his incumbency.
The temporary editor was also nearing the limit of his incumbency, but had so far participated in the good fortune of the “Clarion” as to receive an offer from one of the San Francisco dailies.
The feeding of the multitude was in charge of the Methodist Ladies' Aid, an energetic and exceptionally businesslike organization, which fully expected to make sufficient profit from the enterprise to clear off the debt from their church at Maplehill, an achievement greatly desired not only by the ladies themselves but by their minister, the Reverend Harper Freeman, now in the third year of his incumbency.
Quotes with INCUMBENCY (3)
As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither need…
Most of us would simply prefer things to remain the same-- the "Status que" looks more appealing, especially when we think that somehow we are benefiting. accordingly, incumbency with all its faults is generally more assuring than a future that risks being in doubt, risks placing us in some positions we are unsure of. (p. xii, emphasis in general.
The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.