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Contribution

Contribution Meaning & Definition
Contribution Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Contribution?

[n] any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor; "I am proud of my contribution to the team's success"; "they all did their share of the work"
[n] act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity
[n] a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story
[n] an amount of money contributed; "he expected his contribution to be repaid with interest"
[n] a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause

Synonyms | Synonyms for Contribution: donation | donation | part | share

Related Terms | Find terms related to Contribution: accommodation | accordance | alms | alms fee | assessment | association | award | awarding | benefaction | beneficence | bestowal | bestowment | blackmail | call | call for | cess | chanty | charity | claim | cochairmanship | collection | communication | complicity | concession | condominium | conferment | conferral | conscience money | copartnership | copartnery | cotenancy | deliverance | delivery | demand | demand for | direct tax | dole | donation | donative | draft | drain | duty | endowment | engagement | exaction | extortion | extortionate demand | furnishment | gifting | giving | graduated taxation | grant | granting | handout | having a part | heavy demand | impartation | impartment | imposition | impost | indent | indirect tax | insistent demand | investiture | involvement | joint chairmanship | joint control | joint ownership | joint return | joint tenancy | levy | liberality | nonnegotiable demand | notice | offer | offering | offertory | order | partaking | participation | partnership | pittance | presentation | presentment | progressive tax | provision | requirement | requisition | rush | rush order | separate returns | sharing | single tax | subscription | suffrage | supertax | supplying | surrender | surtax | tax | tax base | tax dodging | tax evasion | tax exemption | tax return | tax structure | tax withholding | taxable income | taxation | tax-exempt status | taxing | tithe | toll | tribute | ultimatum | voting | votive offering | vouchsafement | warning | withholding tax

See Also | amount | amount of money | attempt | benefaction | effort | end | endeavor | endeavour | gift | gift | giving | offering | publication | publishing | subscription | sum | sum of money | try

Contribution In Webster's Dictionary

\Con`tri*bu"tion\, n. [L. contributio: cf. F. contribution.] 1. The act of contributing. 2. That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals. A certain contribution for the poor saints which are at jerusalem. --Rom. xv. 26. Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences. --Whewell. 3. (Mil.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country. These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. --Motley. 4. (Law) Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.

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