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INCUMBENT [6 records]

Record 1 2015-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
OBS

To be incumbent on somebody to do something.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel Management (General)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
DEF

A person holding an office or position.

OBS

incumbent: term used in the context of military training.

CONT

As all efforts to meet the requirements through language training proved insufficient, the employee was obliged to accept a transfer to a position with different duties. The employee objected to the transfer and sought to enforce his rights as an incumbent employee occupying an indeterminate position under the Exclusion Order of 1977.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)
  • Recrutement du personnel
DEF

Personne qui occupe une fonction, une charge qui lui a été spécifiquement confiée.

OBS

Dans l'administration publique fédérale, personne qui occupe un poste doté pour une période indéterminée ou pour une période déterminée.

OBS

titulaire : terme utilisé dans le contexte de l'instruction militaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión del personal (Generalidades)
  • Contratación de personal
DEF

Persona que ejerce un cargo o una profesión con título o nombramiento oficiales.

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Record 4 2005-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
DEF

A sitting member running for re-election

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
CONT

Les députés sortants de la majorité n'ont aucune raison de se glorifier des performances qu'ils ont réalisées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
OBS

incumbente: anglicismo proveniente del término inglés "incumbent" utilizado erróneamente en español para designar al que ocupa un cargo y aspira a la reelección.

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Record 5 2004-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Parliamentary Language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
OBS

«Siégeant» est redondant.

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

one that occupies: occupant (the previous [incumbent] insisted that the house was haunted ...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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