Crossword clues for contribution
contribution
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contribution
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a positive contribution
▪ Most refugees are determined to make a positive contribution to their new country.
a useful contribution
▪ He played well and made a useful contribution to the team’s performance.
contribution
▪ He made a valuable contribution to our work.
pension contributions (=money that you pay into a pension)
▪ You can make additional pension contributions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ No one knows how big the contribution was and the price paid for the electricity is being kept secret.
▪ They raise more money in big contributions, and we take all the heat.
▪ Ruthin struggled to post 107-9, the biggest single contribution of 16 coming in extras.
▪ The first big contribution was on March 22.
▪ Financial betting-or spread bets on stock indices and individual shares-continued to make the biggest contribution.
▪ That doesn't include big contributions to Mr Clinton's presidential library project.
▪ These are used consistently and make a big contribution to giving a site a designed look.
▪ The biggest single contribution to the raised level of this production comes from the conducting of Michel Plasson.
charitable
▪ The very sound of my name in quest of some charitable contribution sends many of them in flight to the Outer Hebrides.
▪ Those include the deductibility of charitable contributions, education expenses, interest and medical expenses.
▪ In 1696 he was arrested for signing and circulating an appeal for charitable contributions to relieve the extruded clergy.
▪ The vast majority of the money comes from abroad, given as legal charitable contributions, he said.
▪ These include the treatment of capital transfers, of charitable contributions, and of capital gains arising from interest rate changes.
▪ Document the costs and benefits of participating in school-to-work, rather than treating it solely as a charitable contribution.
▪ The next obstacle is just as tough: the $ 24 billion annual tax savings for charitable contributions.
▪ But they also reward or punish behavior: The deduction for charitable contributions underwrites generosity.
financial
▪ In some cases subject departments were also making a financial contribution to the library book budget.
▪ And in return, legislators depend heavily on the mainstream media for their large-scale financial contributions and favorable press coverage.
▪ Additionally, these sections have made a financial contribution to the sponsorship.
▪ Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this displeasure took the form of refusing to pay our assessed financial contribution.
▪ It made financial contributions at independence 20 years ago.
▪ More than 100 people made financial contributions.
▪ It usefully strengthens the Library's preservation microfilming programme with a substantial external financial contribution.
▪ They would prefer not to have to make a financial contribution, regardless of their ability to pay.
great
▪ The banning of tobacco advertising would be a great contribution to achieving what the United States has already achieved.
▪ Social workers need to weigh up its importance alongside other issues where they may have a greater contribution.
▪ He collects several hits but his greatest contribution is in the field, not with his glove but with his mouth.
▪ While it was doubtless a noble religion it still had a greater contribution to make to humanity.
▪ But the greatest contribution Mrs Thatcher made to selling the reforms was to lose the Tory leadership.
▪ They are the votes which, usually making the greatest contribution to a successful candidate's quota, are the most influential.
illegal
▪ The company also pleaded no contest to falsifying its records to hide the illegal contributions.
▪ Criminal investigators are examining a number of illegal or questionable contributions from foreign sources.
important
▪ Credit manager can make an important contribution in two key areas - evaluation and post-auditing.
▪ True, the colonists made an important contribution to the places they ruled.
▪ Following the work of Rawls, however, there has been a profusion of important contributions to liberal political philosophy.
▪ The all important contribution of our people has been underpinned by a continuing focus on development and training.
▪ The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture as important contributions to workforce flexibility, and the restructuring process.
▪ Firstly, professionals make important contributions to the well-being of society as a whole.
▪ There may well be important indirect contributions they can make, if they wish to.
▪ The development of self-study materials which cater for a range of expertise is an important contribution central government could make.
individual
▪ Alongside these individual contributions, Gloucester's northern connection also provided the muscle behind his coup.
▪ If a group can achieve its goals through the sum of individual contributions, then the traditional working group makes sense.
▪ An individual contribution is identified by adding the row number.
▪ It is the responsibility of management to evaluate the individual contributions of team members.
▪ More specifically, there is Matisse's individual contribution, such as how colour is reinvented in his painting.
▪ Candidates can get around the cap if they agree to accept individual contributions of no more than $ 150&038;.
▪ There is no way we can decipher properly the individual contributions that different pairs of atoms make to the total atomic distribution.
▪ If, however, a performance goal requires more than the sum of individual contributions, the working group approach falls short.
large
▪ They do not, that is to say, make a very large contribution to a theory of social movements.
▪ The Altru Hospital Auxiliary has given the largest contribution thus far.
▪ Mr Eysenck undoubtedly made large contributions to psychology.
▪ The largest contribution to monthly price increases came from motoring costs, including petrol prices.
▪ Genette's largest contribution to structuralist narrative theory is his Narrative Discourse.
▪ By appearance, the largest contribution to date went toward the home-building project for maquila workers.
▪ Foreign aid has actually made a larger contribution to the national economy than foreign investment in the past five years.
▪ Because of this the government sees this work as providing the largest single contribution to its casualty reduction target for the year 2000.
major
▪ Unwin next joined the Tudor Walters committee of enquiry, providing a major contribution.
▪ Clinton made another major contribution to his own election by recruiting Al Gore to his Great Group.
▪ It also means that you've spent a productive few hours studying, which is a major contribution to your weekly workload.
▪ Another major contribution was simply continuity.
▪ A large proportion of our researchers are therefore unlikely to make major contributions to the literature of their research area.
▪ No women were scheduled to make major contributions.
▪ Women's incomes are a major contribution to family incomes.
▪ Dry deposition may make a major contribution to the acidity problem.
national
▪ In addition, the increase in national insurance contributions is the equivalent of a penny in the pound on income tax.
▪ Strictly speaking we should add the various National Insurance contributions to the total for direct taxation.
▪ The aim is for the rates to be adjusted so that, overall, the employer's national insurance contribution does not rise.
▪ Another widespread error is to stop paying National Insurance contributions while you are non-resident.
▪ In what amounts to direct taxation, national insurance contributions for employees and the self-employed will rise by 1 percent.
▪ Some local initiatives may yet overcome their funding constraints and make a national contribution.
▪ Nigel Lawson's most expensive change, to national insurance contributions, comes into effect today.
personal
▪ A growing number of nurses are making a personal contribution to clinical research: some are even aiming for a higher degree.
▪ Note: The nonpartisan center tallied personal contributions in 1995 by 300 Washington lobbyists, lawyers and members of their families.
▪ Every actor knows that whether or not collective benefits will be secured is not going to be influenced by his personal contribution.
▪ You can only get a graduated pension based on your own personal contributions.
▪ It was his personal contribution to an informed public.
▪ He has one objective: that the delegates get the very best from his personal contribution.
political
▪ The allegation that the Liberals were selling honours in return for political contributions was brutally clear.
▪ Overall, the company made $ 3.5 million in political contributions during the 2000 election compared to $ 741,904 four years earlier.
▪ As governor, Weld has shunned political action committee contributions.
▪ For Victoria, the agenda for the Ting Hui was city politics and political contributions, period.
▪ Among other things, investigators will focus on whether kickbacks or political contributions were granted in exchange for the loans.
▪ It was a law enacted in 1907 that forbade political contributions from corporate funds.
▪ Small-business groups are pushing to make 1996 a breakthrough year for political contributions.
▪ As foreigners, the Majeeds could not vote for Clinton or make a political contribution.
positive
▪ In this manner, you will be making a real and positive contribution to the development of the advertising.
▪ Nor has the potential and positive contribution of musicians been widely acknowledged in the process of reform.
▪ They make a positive contribution to nature.
▪ As such, a career in local government offers a challenge and opportunity to make a positive contribution to society.
▪ The decision whether or not to sell a product will depend on which ones make a positive contribution.
▪ To enable the researcher to contribute new and significant ideas, and to make a positive contribution to knowledge, and 2.
▪ Yet in both its anti-art and anti-dada stages it makes a positive contribution to modern art.
▪ Does he recognise that dialogue is not criticism by Ministers of everyone else's proposals without making any positive contribution themselves?
significant
▪ It was decided to have two selectors who have made significant contributions to contemporary art; one artist and one critic.
▪ Used prudently, advanced hybrid or bio-engineered crop strains could make a potentially significant contribution to third world agriculture.
▪ George Montgomery made significant research contributions, especially to cardiovascular pathology.
▪ It does, however, represent a significant contribution to studies of the Changes and at least demands an answer.
▪ Is not his statement a significant contribution towards the Government's interest in green policies?
▪ Already the computer has made a significant contribution to the processing of much of the routine data generated by office staff.
▪ Then came two men who made very significant contributions to the area of past-life regression.
▪ In doing so it is intended to make a significant contribution to information for policymakers.
small
▪ Morales says he can not be bought: special-interest money is out, and he must rely on small contributions.
▪ No collections were taken, but just next to the exit a small receptacle awaited contributions to help pay the rent.
▪ The private sector service industries make only a small contribution while the public services make none.
▪ A small contribution of 44 points.
▪ This book is a small contribution to the fund of information they need.
▪ The same day teachers will get the chance to wear their school's uniform for a small contribution.
▪ Though cigarettes make a relatively small contribution to overall levels, they do man increased exposure for the individual smoker.
▪ Other nations have agreed smaller contributions.
social
▪ Employers' social security contributions were reduced by 4.3 percent from Jan. 1, 1993, and income tax allowances were reduced.
▪ The most developed of these, Meade's scheme for varying social insurance contributions, was given special prominence.
▪ Individuals' social security insurance contributions were to be increased, while those of employers were to be reduced by 7 percent.
substantial
▪ That amount is topped up by a substantial contribution from the private sector in the form of loans.
▪ These were people who already had made a substantial contribution to the state party.
▪ They have both made very substantial contributions to the progress of the Group and we will miss their sound advice.
▪ O &038; M were eager to make a substantial contribution to their new corporate headquarters.
▪ Some had large dependent families, while others had teenage children able to make a substantial contribution.
▪ With your help we hope to make a substantial contribution.
▪ It usefully strengthens the Library's preservation microfilming programme with a substantial external financial contribution.
▪ This was Rolt's first substantial contribution to the preservation of the artefacts of industrial history.
useful
▪ Nevertheless, Barry Gale's book is well worth reading, and a useful contribution to the literature on Darwin.
▪ We hope that the present series of unit texts will make a useful contribution to such a library.
▪ Additionally he made some very useful contributions in loose play, and must now be a serious contender for the Lions.
▪ Banker's Books, particularly the mail order side, continued to make a useful contribution in spite of the recession.
▪ Lucid, intelligent, and shrewd, this is a most useful contribution to a fascinating but little-studied period of history.
▪ Surprisingly, relatively few women saw sheepdog work as a useful contribution they could make to the farm.
▪ Mr. Mans Perhaps I can find a way through the middle of my two hon. Friends' useful contributions.
valuable
▪ Garden Life could turn out to be the most valuable contribution to conservation we have seen for some time.
▪ It grows well under water and could be a valuable contribution to the hobby.
▪ Members of hte Soemrville Souvenirs Group have continued their sterling work throughout the year and make a valuable contribution to College income.
▪ Use them all and you can enjoy savings of over £100, a valuable contribution to the cost of your game.
▪ Professor Lacey left of his own accord and was thanked for his valuable contribution.
▪ The valuable musical contribution of Betty Pulkingham, Graham Kendrick and others in this field should not be overlooked.
▪ The Woonerf, though without doubt a valuable contribution to safe living areas, has not proved to be a universal solution.
▪ If I have thereby diminished Carr and Rees's very valuable contribution to this subject, then I am sincerely sorry.
voluntary
▪ Your financial adviser will be able to explain how you apply. Voluntary contributions by your employer.
▪ Evidence of direct concern is the voluntary contributions people make to research organizations concerned with health and safety.
▪ And as the lifeboats are run entirely on voluntary contributions and membership fees, the £6 you give to us is vital.
▪ However, in certain limited circumstances you can make voluntary contributions to make up a shortfall in a particular year.
▪ The voluntary contribution Voluntary organizations are particularly active in the care of old people.
▪ Of these, only ninety-five financed school meals out of rates, the remainder calling on voluntary contributions.
▪ Additional voluntary contributions seem caught too, therefore.
■ NOUN
campaign
▪ Texas puts no limits on campaign contributions by lobbyists, or on spending by candidates.
▪ His lawyer says he was entrapped by overzealous prosecutors who wrongly characterized campaign contributions as bribes.
▪ Any gift or campaign contribution is legal so long as it is reported.
▪ He strongly implied that part of the plan involved funneling campaign contributions to members of Congress, state officials and presidential candidates.
▪ How else can members of Congress assume a steady flow of campaign contributions?
▪ Riordan has already amassed nearly $ 2 million in campaign contributions.
insurance
▪ I am being punished for being an invalid and paying my national insurance contributions for 40 years.
▪ The Tory victory means that the family will pay £46 less in tax and national insurance contributions.
▪ It is the national insurance contributions that have become the second largest element, with 17 percent of the total.
▪ All the women who had paid full National Insurance contributions had sufficient contributions to be eligible for unemployment benefit.
▪ Contracted out workers pay a rate of National Insurance contribution reduced by 2%, as do their employers.
▪ Indeed, because of the insurance contribution condition, the opposite is the case, particularly in relation to the unskilled.
▪ They usually employ many part-time staff since this reduces the amount of National Insurance contributions the company has to pay.
▪ Scrapping the income ceiling at which employees stop paying the 9% national insurance contribution would have attacked another anomaly.
pension
▪ Then, we've tax, insurance, local government rates, pension contributions, and the mortgage.
▪ General operating expenses, including salaries and pension contributions, grew 3. 4 percent, to 92. 927 billion pesetas.
▪ Of course these wages do not include the company's pension contributions to the individuals concerned.
▪ The government believes it would be political suicide to allow pension contributions to rise above 30 percent.
▪ Earnings figures exclude share options and pension contributions.
▪ The pension contribution will continue for many years.
▪ Surprisingly, the government has managed to sell this idea to employers, who pay half of the pension contributions.
■ VERB
accept
▪ They tend to be wary of public funding, but accept limits on contributions and expenditure.
▪ Helen Delich Bentley, a Republican, who accepted contributions from Davis.
▪ Please accept our contribution to the Lemon Fund.
▪ The 1974 campaign reform law bars presidential candidates who accept public financing from accepting other contributions.
▪ Candidates can get around the cap if they agree to accept individual contributions of no more than $ 150&038;.
▪ Those abiding by the spending ceiling can accept contributions at the current level of $ 750.
increase
▪ Mr Sayer also hinted at moves to encourage other wealthier members of the association to increase their current contributions.
▪ What if you increased your contributions to United Way?
▪ However, employers could find themselves in a tight corner if they attempted to increase employee contributions or reduce benefits.
▪ The increased contributions would be phased in over 3-years, starting in 1999.
▪ But now we are told that the Labour party plans to increase the local contribution to no less than 20 percent.
▪ There is increasing awareness of the contributions of NSAIDs to gastrointestinal blood loss.
▪ Overseas stations actually managed to increase their contribution.
▪ They have also indicated a willingness to increase their contribution as the cost of Law Reports rises.
make
▪ They have both made very substantial contributions to the progress of the Group and we will miss their sound advice.
▪ We want to show that Hispanics in the United States have made a crucial contribution to this country from the beginning.
▪ A large proportion of our researchers are therefore unlikely to make major contributions to the literature of their research area.
▪ Hundreds of others have made important contributions in recent years.
▪ And he recognises that motorcycles can make a real contribution to reducing congestion.
▪ And today it was my turn to make a contribution.
▪ I do not think that it will be difficult for all those present to make a contribution to the debate.
▪ In addition, many companies make contributions to employee retirement plans at the start of the year.
pay
▪ We will therefore be unable to pay our contribution to the marioc subsidy.
▪ Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this displeasure took the form of refusing to pay our assessed financial contribution.
▪ I am being punished for being an invalid and paying my national insurance contributions for 40 years.
▪ In addition to the fees set out above, you may be required to pay annual contributions towards the cost of your work.
▪ Each volunteer pays an expedition contribution which, taken together, finances the project.
▪ It is worked out on earnings since April 1978 on which you have paid Class 1 contributions as an employee.
▪ At the current time over 1,000,000 men pay no contribution whatsoever towards the cost of raising their children.
▪ Now women pay contributions on the same basis as men.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a journal with contributions from well-known writers
▪ health-care insurance contributions
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few have a better matching contribution plan.
▪ He stressed the contribution that pragmatic Britain could make.
▪ In addition, many companies make contributions to employee retirement plans at the start of the year.
▪ Its contribution is particular rather than general, and some have questioned whether there is a need for two levels of appeal court.
▪ Many like them have raised money for local charities or simply made a genuine and lasting contribution to their communities.
▪ Pastor also received no contribution from the organization.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contribution
Contribution \Con`tri*bu"tion\, n. [L. contributio: cf. F. contribution.]
The act of contributing.
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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. -
(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. (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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
contribution
n. 1 Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole. 2 An amount of money given toward something. 3 The act of contribute.
WordNet
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" [syn: part, share]
a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause [syn: donation]
act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity [syn: donation]
an amount of money contributed; "he expected his contribution to be repaid with interest"
a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story
Wikipedia
Contribution
Contribution refers to the act of contributing or the thing contributed (such as personal time, money, ideas, private property or assistance).
Contribution may also refer to:
- Donation
- Sharing
- Payment
- Contribution (Law): a payment between defendants with joint and several liability to apportion liability
- Publication in a newspaper, magazine, etc.
- Contribution margin in cost accounting and analysis
- "Contribution" (song), a song by Mica Paris
Contribute may refer to:
- Adobe Contribute Web editing software
Contribution (song)
"Contribution" is a song by British singer-songwriter Mica Paris featuring American rapper Rakim. it was released as the lead single from her second studio album Contribution in 1990.
Contribution (album)
Contribution is the second studio album by British singer-songwriter Mica Paris. It was released on October 20, 1990 by 4th & B'way Records and Island Records.
Usage examples of "contribution".
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Like nearly everyone who ever played a large part in public life and helped make history, Adams wondered how history would portray him, and worried not a little that he might be unfairly treated, misunderstood, or his contributions made to look insignificant compared to those of others.
I hope your contribution is somewhat more efficacious than the farce your commissariat precipitated in regard to the so-called Amish threat.
Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated June 14th 1926, and also thank, through you, the Auckland friends for their kind contribution.
Albert examined me, he measured my temperature bolometrically, scanned my eyes for clarity and my skin for external blemishes like burst blood vessels, pumped hypersound through my torso to peer at the organs inside, and sampled the contributions I left in the toilets for biochemical imbalances and bacteria counts.
They were Boskopoids, big-brained ancestors of the Bushman peoples from Luvah, and in the decade since their discovery they had made a dozen major contributions to science.
Kimberly Brandywine, for special contributions in the field of cosmology.
Newbold, who had charge of a military post on the Selangor frontier in 1833, witnessed many of the atrocities perpetrated by these Bugis princes, who committed piracies, robbed, plundered, and levied contributions on the wretched Malays, without hindrance.
One of the great contributions of cardiopulmonary resuscitation was that nobody ever died on a carry-out, or in an ambulance, for that matter.
For obvious reasons Hive philosophers and Establishment Reality-Definers tend to discredit the Pleasure-Aesthetic Castes and the contributions they make to the species.
His contributions to various organizations had caused an assortment of chairmen and chairladies and executive secretaries, upon news of his death, to have a deep and decent interest in the terms of his will, but except for a few modest bequests everything had gone to his widow.
Fuehrer, against war, against boss rule, peace with the Church, free expression of opinion, an end to the Cheka terror, restoration of justice, reduction of contributions to the party by one half, no more building of palaces, housing for the common people and more Prussian probity and simplicity.
The price of an encore, she then announced with characteristic chutzpa, would be a further contribution to the cause.
Fido, distinguished and prolific author, scholar, criminologist, and now good friend, for his extraordinary contributions to the Jack the Ripper case and our understanding of it, as well as his general good counsel.
His contributions to cryptanalytics were minor, since his talents lay more in the administrative and mechanical fields.