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• n  the term during which some position is held
• n  a duty that is incumbent upon you
• n  the office of an incumbent

• Kerry may have spent the past 12 years in the Senate, but he enjoys few of the advantages of incumbency.
• And despite Garret's advantages of incumbency, he believes he has a decent chance of unseating the Republican.
• Said he: "It's the anti-incumbency feeling.

• tenure
• term of office

News & Articles

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• Romney wishes Hurricane Sandy ‘hadn’t happened,’ hurt campaign
  Mitt Romney has started going on cable TV, telling interviewers he wishes Hurricane Sandy “hadn’t happened” and that the storm that did $50 billion in damage also damaged his campaign. “I wish the hurricane hadn’t happened when it did because it gave the president a chance to be presidential and to be out showing sympathy for folks:That’s one of the advantages of incumbency,” Romney told CNN ...
  June 7, 2013 - seattlepi.com

Quotes

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• Terry McAuliffe in BusinessWeek
  Former Democratic chairman Terry McAuliffe said in an interview that his party must get a strong turnout, acknowleding "an anti-incumbency mood out there."
• Joe Birkett in Chicago Tribune
  She has the power of incumbency and her father continues to control the flow of campaign contributions,Birkett wrote of Lisa Madigan and her father, House speaker and state Democratic chairman Michael Madigan, on his campaign Web site. "It...
• Joe Biden in ABC News
  This memorandum addresses the matter of how we can maximize the fact of our incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration. Stated a bit more bluntly - how we can use the available federal machinery... John Dean http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE8c26ljFdMdyBkH7ep_dDerD7rww Kansas City Star http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/16920760.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEHVsf4PQy2dIbMdkY5oRMzbXyaxw Mar 16, 2007 50848 68451 incumbent It's incumbent on both parties to build an atmosphere of support for negotiations, and not to complicate them," Biden said, standing alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.