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

• 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。
• The real structural problem is that incumbents get re-elected 90 percent of the time.
  真正的结构性问题是在位者重新当选的机会占90%。
• Incumbents tend to win presidential elections, but second-term presidents tend to be disappointing.
  现任总统往往更容易赢得选举，但连任后通常表现欠佳。
• 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 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。
• The private cloud is everything the incumbents love.
  私有云是市场领先者的最爱。
• 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。
• 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。
• Be it broadcasting, pharmaceuticals, banking or insurance, my experience has been that the rules favour incumbents.
  根据我的经验，不论是广播、制药、银行还是保险行业，规则都是有利于现有企业的。
• 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。