Incumbent vs Candidate - What's the difference?
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Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
* Sprat
Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Addison
(botany, geology) Resting on something else; in botany, said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
(zoology) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
Being the current holder of an office or a title.
The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.
*2012 , The Economist, 06 Oct 2012 issue,
*:Mr Obama’s problems were partly structural. An incumbent' must defend the realities and compromises of government, while a challenger is freer to promise the earth, details to follow. Mr Obama’s odd solution was to play both ' incumbent and challenger, jumping from a defence of his record to indignation at such ills as over-crowded classrooms and tax breaks for big oil companies.
(business) A holder of a position as supplier to a market or market segment that allows the holder to earn above-normal profits.
*2012 , , Sep 29th 2012 issue,
*:American capitalism is becoming like its European cousin: established firms with the scale and scope to deal with a growing thicket of regulations are doing well, but new companies are withering on the vine or selling themselves to incumbents .
A person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.
A participant in an examination.
Something or somebody maybe suitable for or in danger of something or somebody.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
, title= Synonym for candidate gene.
As nouns the difference between incumbent and candidate
is that incumbent is the current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office while candidate is a person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.As an adjective incumbent
is imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.incumbent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.
- All men, truly zealous, will perform those good works that are incumbent on all Christians.
- two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it
- to move the incumbent load they try
- (Gray)
- the incumbent toe of a bird
- If the incumbent senator dies, he is replaced by a person appointed by the governor.
Noun
(en noun)The first presidential debate: Back in the centre, back in the game
Schumpeter: Fixing the capitalist machine
See also
* ("incumbent" on Wikipedia) ----candidate
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Noun
(en noun)Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}