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incumbency
noun
1 incumbency
The term during which some position is held.
synonyms: tenure, term of office.
Roget 995:
church,
churchdom;
ministry,
apostleship†,
priesthood,
prelacy,
hierarch†,
church government,
christendom,
pale of the church.
clericalism,
sacerdotalism†,
episcopalianism,
ultramontanism†;
theocracy;
ecclesiology†,
ecclesiologist†;
priestcraft†,
odium theologicum [Lat.].
monachism†,
monachy†;
monasticism,
monkhood†.
[Ecclesiastical offices and dignities]
pontificate,
primacy,
archbishopric†,
archiepiscopacy†;
prelacy;
bishopric,
bishopdom†;
episcopate,
episcopacy;
see,
diocese;
deanery,
stall;
canonry,
canonicate†;
prebend,
prebendaryship†;
benefice,
incumbency,
glebe,
advowson†,
living,
cure;
rectorship†;
vicariate,
vicarship;
deaconry†,
deaconship†;
curacy;
chaplain,
chaplaincy,
chaplainship;
cardinalate,
cardinalship†;
abbacy,
presbytery.
holy orders,
ordination,
institution,
consecration,
induction,
reading in,
preferment,
translation,
presentation.
popedom†;
the Vatican,
the apostolic see;
religious sects
etc.
984.
council
etc.
696;
conclave,
convocation,
synod,
consistory,
chapter,
vestry;
sanhedrim,
conge d'elire [Fr.];
ecclesiastical courts,
consistorial court,
court of Arches.
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Roget 625:
business,
occupation,
employment;
pursuit
etc.
622;
what one is doing,
what one is about;
affair,
concern,
matter,
case.
matter in hand,
irons in the fire;
thing to do,
agendum,
task,
work,
job,
chore [U.S.],
errand,
commission,
mission,
charge,
care;
duty
etc.
926.
part,
role,
cue;
province,
function,
lookout,
department,
capacity,
sphere,
orb,
field,
line;
walk,
walk of life;
beat,
round,
routine;
race,
career.
office,
place,
post,
chargeship†,
incumbency,
living;
situation,
berth,
employ;
service
etc.
(servitude)
749;
engagement;
undertaking
etc.
676.
vocation,
calling,
profession,
cloth,
faculty;
industry,
art;
industrial arts;
craft,
mystery,
handicraft;
trade
etc.
(commerce)
794.
exercise;
work
etc.
(action)
680;
avocation;
press of business
etc.
(activity)
682.
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Dutch: een vaste benoeming hebben
Polish: kadencja
2 incumbency
A duty that is incumbent upon you.
3 incumbency
The office of an incumbent.
verb
Roget 625:
pass one's time in,
employ one's time in,
spend one's time in;
employ oneself in,
employ oneself upon;
occupy oneself with,
concern oneself with;
make it one's business
etc.
n.;
undertake
etc.
676;
enter a profession;
betake oneself to,
turn one's hand to;
have to do with
etc.
(do)
680.
office,
place,
post,
chargeship†,
incumbency,
living;
situation,
berth,
employ;
service
etc.
(servitude)
749;
engagement;
undertaking
etc.
676.
drive a trade;
carry on a trade,
do a trade,
transact a trade,
carry on business,
do business,
transact business
etc.
n.;
keep a shop;
ply one's task,
ply one's trade;
labor in one's vocation;
pursue the even tenor of one's way;
attend to business,
attend to one's work.
officiate,
serve,
act;
act one's part,
play one's part;
do duty;
serve the office of,
discharge the office of,
perform the office of,
perform the duties of,
perform the functions of;
hold an office,
fill an office,
fill a place,
fill a situation;
hold a portfolio,
hold a place,
hold a situation.
be about,
be doing,
be engaged in,
be employed in,
be occupied with,
be at work on;
have one's hands in,
have in hand;
have on one's hands,
have on one's shoulders;
bear the burden;
have one's hands full
etc.
(activity)
682.
be in the hands of,
be on the stocks,
be on the anvil;
pass through one's hands.
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Moby thesaurus: accountability, accountableness, advowson, amenability, answerability, answerableness, appointment, bale, benefice, berth, billet, burden, burdening, burthen, care of souls, cargo, charge, charging, cumber, cumbrance, curacy, cure, deadweight, dedication to duty, devotion to duty, drag, duteousness, dutifulness, employment, encumbrance, engagement, freight, gig, glebe, handicap, incubus, job, lading, liability, living, load, loading, millstone, moonlighting, office, opening, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, place, position, post, prelacy, pressure, rectory, responsibility, responsibleness, saddling, second job, sense of duty, sense of obligation, service, situation, station, superincumbency, surcharge, taxing, tenure, vacancy, vicarage ... show more.
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