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Definition of contribution
1 : a payment (such as a levy or tax) imposed by military, civil, or ecclesiastical authorities usually for a special or extraordinary purpose
2 : the act of contributing; also : the thing contributed his $100 contribution to the cancer research fund
contributively
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Examples of contribution in a Sentence
They thanked him for his contribution of time and money.
He made an important contribution to the debate.
As mayor, he made many positive contributions to the growth of the city.
a book of essays including contributions from several well-known political columnists
The money was raised by voluntary contribution.
Recent Examples of contribution from the Web
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Its 2015 annual report, for example, trumpeted the financing of a big supermarket in Côte d’Ivoire as typical of its contribution to African development.
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Americans are peeved about rich European members shorting NATO of their mandatory contributions.
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The city is matching the grant with in-kind contributions.
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Many historians have highlighted the contribution of merchant shipping generally in that war.
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New Plan After accruals to the existing defined benefit retirement plan stop in 2023, UPS will begin a contribution program that will place between 5 percent and 8 percent of a worker’s eligible salary into a 401(k), depending on seniority.
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Since the beginning of 2015, the bank has paid a total of $9 million in contributions of this type to roughly 15,000 employees.
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Yet in the last two years, GE spent little more than $2 billion on total pension contributions, which hasn’t been nearly enough to keep the overall shortfall from widening.
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The latest contribution on this subject was published just a few weeks ago and concerned the new tyrannosaurid species Daspletosaurus horneri (Carr et al.
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Origin and Etymology of contribution
see contribute
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Law Dictionary
contribution
Legal Definition of contribution
1 : payment of a share of an amount for which one is liable: as a : shared payment of a judgment by joint tortfeasors especially according to proportional fault — compare apportion a b : pro rata apportionment of loss among all the insurance policies covering the same person or property — compare indemnity
2 : the money paid by one responsible for a share
3 : payment to a common fund (as by an employer or employee to an insurance plan or retirement fund)
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