200 BM Daily Vocabulary #23 | incumbent

<p>Today’s word is: <strong>Incumbent</strong> –The meaning of “<strong>incumbent</strong>” is: necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility, the holder of an office or post, officially having the named position. To be necessary for someone.</p> <p>With BM English Speaking Radio Channel - Learn one new word every day and impress the world.</p> <p>In this English vocabulary lesson, you will learn how to use the word <strong>incumbent</strong>. We are sure that this ESL lesson will help you to enhance your English vocabulary and speak English fluently and confidently.</p> <p>Brandon was recently elected as a corporation. He noticed that the people living in the area assigned to him, were facing several challenges. Firstly since the area was away from the main city, there was limited transport. Then owing to some construction work, there were frequent power or electricity outages (means they would experience frequent power cuts). Now he realized that it was necessary for him to provide them a solution. Which means that it was <strong>incumbent</strong> on him to act to provide them a solution.</p> <p>He immediately worked with the public transport agency and increased the frequency of buses and the number of cabs in that area. He arranged for generators to help during power cuts and reduced the number of hours for construction work so that the local people would not experience any electricity related problem.</p> <p>Thus, the people in that area unanimously thought highly of him and would say, the <strong>incumbent</strong> corporation is a responsible and efficient person.</p> <p>Listen carefully on how we can use the word <strong>incumbent</strong> in 8 different forms in 8 different sentences/Contexts/situations.</p> <p><strong>Example number 1 of 8:</strong> The <strong>incumbent</strong> manager faces problems which began the year before he took up his position.</p> <p><strong>Example number 2 of 8:</strong> It is <strong>incumbent</strong> upon all of us to create the right environment for our children.