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What (who) is Contribute - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Contributions; Contribute; Contribution (disambiguation); Contribs; Contrib
Contribute
·vi To give or use one's power or influence for any object; to Assist.
II. Contribute ·vi To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.
III. Contribute ·vt To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.
contribute
(contributes, contributing, contributed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
The three sons also contribute to the family business...
He believes he has something to contribute to a discussion concerning the uprising.
VERB: V to n, V n to n, also V
2.
To contribute money or resources to something means to give money or resources to help pay for something or to help achieve a particular purpose.
The US is contributing $4 billion in loans, credits and grants...
NATO officials agreed to contribute troops and equipment to such an operation if the UN Security Council asked for it.
= donate
VERB: V n, V n to/towards n, also V
• contributor (contributors)
...the largest net contributors to EU funds.
N-COUNT
3.
If something contributes to an event or situation, it is one of the causes of it.
The report says design faults in both the vessels contributed to the tragedy...
Stress, both human and mechanical, may also be a contributing factor.
VERB: V to n, V-ing
4.
If you contribute to a magazine, newspaper, or book, you write things that are published in it.
I was asked to contribute to a newspaper article making predictions for the new year...
Frank Deford is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine.
VERB: V to n, V-ing
• contributor (contributors)
Reporter Alan Nearn covers Central America and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
N-COUNT
contribute
[k?n'tr?bju:t, 'k?ntr?bju:t]
¦ verb give in order to help achieve or provide something.
?(contribute to) help to cause or bring about.
Derivatives
contribution noun
contributive k?n'tr?b- adjective
contributor noun
Origin
C16 (earlier (ME) as contribution): from L. contribut-, contribuere 'bring together, add', from con- 'with' + tribuere 'bestow'.
Usage
The first pronunciation, which puts the stress on -tri-, is held to be the only correct one, despite the fact that the alternative, with the stress on con-, is older.
Wikipedia
Contribution
Contribution or Contribute may refer to:
- Contribution (album), by Mica Paris (1990)
- "Contribution" (song), title song from the album
- Contribution (law), an agreement between defendants in a suit to apportion liability
- Contributions, a vital goal of fundraising
- Contribution, a 1976 album by Shawn Phillips
- Contribution margin, the selling price per unit minus the variable cost per unit
Examples of use of Contribute
1. "Yabloko will contribute its list and its name, and we will contribute a face to it.
2. But the law makes no distinction between investment partners who contribute money and managing partners who contribute labor.
3. Local residents contribute either labour or money.
4. "International students contribute enormously to the UK.
5. Salam Fayyad said all individuals should contribute.