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

• 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。
• International passenger traffic and some domestic routes are now open to competitors to state-owned incumbents.
  欧洲的国际客运和部分国内线路已向国有运营商的竞争对手开放。
• Proprietary software incumbents have been forced to respond and adapt.
  专有软件公司被迫对此做出反应，对此进行适应。
• 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。
• Incumbents are going to have to get more efficient and increase their productivity.
  现有企业将不得不提高效率和增加产能。
• Over the past two decades, the incumbents have repeatedly lost elections.
  过去20年，印度在任者不断在选举中落败。
• The handful of budget airlines that arrived in the past decade have struggled to get take-off and landing slots at Mexico City's airport, which are dished out by a committee dominated by incumbents.
  过去十年中新成立的仅有的几家低价航空公司为了在由现任官僚们所组成的委员会控制的墨西哥城机场中混得一席之地而拼死挣扎。
• Since incumbents can control the state machinery that conducts elections, it is clear that elections are genuinely competitive, and that popular will, barring individual exceptions, is clearly expressed.
  鉴于在任者可以操控主持选举的国家机器，很显然，选举真的竞争激烈，除了个别情况以外，民意也得到了明确的表达。
• 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。
• This is not to say centre-right incumbents are in good shape.
  这并是说在位的中右翼情况不错。