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

• 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。
• New brands will find it hard to break in. Incumbents may find the new regime rather cosy.
  新牌子发现自己很难打入该市场，而老牌子则在这一新制度下存活得更加惬意。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are a lot of incumbents-those now licensed to use the airwaves.
  」就是目前拥有电波使用执照的人。
• 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。
• With that scope of mission in mind, there are other incumbents.
  即使是从这一使命的范畴来说，也还有其它实干者。
• 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。
• 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。
• That has created Chinese champions in those sectors, boosting competition with incumbents such as Vestas; its share price has fallen nearly 90 per cent since 2008.
  这使中国产生了这一领域的冠军企业，与维斯塔斯（Vestas）这样的业内巨头展开竞争；维斯塔斯的股价自2008年来下跌了近90%。