Meaning of contribute in English

contribute

verb [ I or T ]

/kənˈtrɪb.juːt/ /ˈkɒn.trɪ.bjuːt/ us

/kənˈtrɪb.juːt/

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to give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people:

contribute towards Aren't you going to contribute towards Jack's leaving present?

Come to the meeting if you feel you have something to contribute.

contribute something to something Her family has contributed $50,000 to the fund.

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to give something to someone

giveGive me that dirty plate.
offerYour doctor should be able to offer advice.
provideThis booklet provides useful information about local services.
supplyThe lake supplies the whole town with water.
donateFour hundred dollars has been donated to the school book fund.

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to write articles for a newspaper, magazine, or book:

contribute to She contributes to several magazines.

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The company publicly apologized and agreed to contribute some money to charity.
It was a real team effort - everyone contributed something to the success of the project.
Tourism contributes millions of pounds to the country's economy.
Everyone in the office is contributing money for his leaving present.
We have contributed all our working lives to pension schemes and national insurance, expecting a reasonable state pension on retirement.

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Giving, providing and supplying

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contribute to something

(Definition of contribute from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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contribute

verb [ I/T ]

/kənˈtrɪb·jut, -jət/

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to help by providing money or support, esp. when other people or conditions are also helping:

[ I ] Tourism contributes substantially to the local economy.

If you contribute something you wrote or created, you allow it to be published or shown with pieces by other people:

[ T ] She soon began to contribute articles to newspapers and magazines.

(Definition of contribute from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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contribute

verb

/kənˈtrɪbjuːt, ˈkɒntrɪbjuːt/ us

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to be one of the reasons why something happens:

contribute to/toward/towards sth Analysts agree that subprime loans contributed to the recession.

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to add new plans or ideas, or help make improvements to something so that it becomes more valuable or successful:

Employees are encouraged to contribute at staff meetings.

There are a number of people who have contributed ideas.

contribute to/toward/towards sth It's best when leaders are clear about how they can best contribute to the overall strategy.

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to provide money or support to help another person, company, or organization to achieve its goal:

contribute to/toward/towards sth At present, only 10% of employers contribute towards childcare costs.

contribute sth to/toward/towards sth Over £75 million was contributed to the campaign.

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Examples of contribute

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Most of the new players contributing to the growth in organic production must necessarily be conventional farmers converting to organics.

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Television contributes to this aural pollution by reducing every kind of music to the same level of a passing moment in the televisual flow.

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They conclude that self-management strategies contribute to an increase in learners' self- and contextual knowledge which can assist in reducing anxiety.

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Indeed, the wish to avoid such veto power may both contribute to surplus coalitions and to grand coalitions between major parties.

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Actually, they appear to the electorate as responsible parties contributing to the governance of the country.

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Another resistance that contributes to the horizontal cell receptive field is the coupling resistance between cells.

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Only symptoms with significant impact on daily activities contributed as diagnostic criteria.

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Early vegetative symptoms, however, may also contribute to the high rates of depression seen later in the course of immune activation.

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Lower levels of empathy may contribute to conflict in social interactions and thereby heighten levels of negative emotions experienced by some children.

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A maximum likelihood ratio test is used to determine which covariates are significantly different from zero and thereby contributing significantly to overall survivorship.

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The resulting variable provides an estimate of the extent to which an individual has contributed to the structural determination of the instrument-specific choices.

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This has produced conceptual confusion that has contributed to a lack of structural rigor in the field of study.

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For instance, lethals may contribute substantially to inbreeding depression.

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On the other hand, there is a substantial amount of phenotypic covariance, and genetic and shared environmental influences contribute substantially to this overlap.

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Our models demonstrate that organic agriculture can contribute substantially to a more sustainable system of food production.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

貢獻，奉獻，捐獻（尤指錢）, （給報紙、雜誌或書）投稿，撰稿…

Meaning of contribute in English

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