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Incumbent vs Compelling - What's the difference?

incumbent | compelling |

As adjectives the difference between incumbent and compelling

is that incumbent is imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office while compelling is requiring urgent attention.

As a noun incumbent

is the current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.

As a verb compelling is

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incumbent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
    • Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.
  • * Sprat
    • All men, truly zealous, will perform those good works that are incumbent on all Christians.
  • Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it
  • * Addison
    • to move the incumbent load they try
  • (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.
    • (Gray)
  • (zoology) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else.
    • the incumbent toe of a bird
  • Being the current holder of an office or a title.
    • If the incumbent senator dies, he is replaced by a person appointed by the governor.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The current holder of an office, such as ecclesiastical benefice or an elected office.
  • *2012 , The Economist, 06 Oct 2012 issue, The first presidential debate: Back in the centre, back in the game
  • *: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, Schumpeter: Fixing the capitalist machine
  • *: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 .

    • See also

    * ("incumbent" on Wikipedia) ----

    compelling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Requiring urgent attention.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", "share the things you love with the world" and so on.}}
  • Forceful.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal , passage=Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.}}

    Related terms

    * compel * compellingly