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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contributor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Unfortunately, the next biggest contributor was Extras, and 286 all out looked very thin; until, that is, I.T.
▪ Contractors may be the biggest of all contributors.
▪ The group's flagship consultancy business was again its biggest contributor, delivering revenue of £47.3m, up 20 per cent.
▪ The technology is set up to register carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions, big contributors to poor air quality.
▪ A 19 percent slump in the value of sterling against the Hong Kong dollar was a big contributor.
▪ Because they are not big campaign contributors while those who profit from the present system are.
▪ Tourism is our second biggest contributor - after North Sea oil - to gross domestic product.
important
▪ A reduced fibre content of the diet on its own might be an important contributor to the development of colonic cancer.
▪ Emotional interaction using ideas is therefore an important contributor to creative and flexible thinking.
▪ Water added to the oceans from melting of land-based ice is the other important contributor to the predicted increase in sea level.
▪ Order and quiet are important contributors to a good learning environment.
▪ Social cohesion is the most powerful defence against madness, the most important contributor to mental health.
▪ In addition to its role in conserving heat, double, glazing is an important contributor to the reduction of condensation.
▪ They are important contributors to the service delivery promised by the school to current and prospective pupils and parents.
individual
▪ It is even unclear whether the individual contributors see their particular expertise being subsumed into this new academic category.
▪ New branch managers were generally promoted from the ranks for competence and achievements as individual contributors.
▪ We have also been receiving wonderful gifts ongoing I hope from individual contributors.
▪ The new managers had to learn how to think, feel, and value as managers instead of as individual contributors.
▪ As individual contributors, they had worked closely with managers who held the very positions in which they now found themselves.
▪ But the subordinates accentuated the differences between the roles of individual contributor and manager that best fitted their interests.
▪ In spite of their established qualifications as individual contributors, many new managers never adjust successfully to managerial responsibilities.
▪ But the traditional source of big political money continued to be individual contributors.
large
▪ Britain also is the largest contributor of heavy metals, copper, cadmium, lead, to the North Sea. 3.
▪ Westlands, and other Valley agribusiness interests, are politically powerful and large campaign contributors.
▪ The momentum thrust is a much larger contributor to the overall thrust than the pressure thrust.
▪ The Gallo family is the largest single lifetime contributor to Bob Dole, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
▪ Well over half of profit still came from overseas, and marine paint and powder coatings were narrowly the largest contributors.
▪ And in an electoral system dominated by money, that often means the short-term interests of their largest campaign contributors.
▪ Both books are anthologies of materials by a large number of contributors.
main
▪ Emigration Emigration and tourism have long been the main contributors to the economy of Madeira, emigration being the older.
▪ The firms participating in this new company are among the main contributors to Conservative Party funds.
major
▪ For example, although industry is often considered as a major contributor to smog, this may not always be the case.
▪ The process causes leaks and blockages around the system, and is a major contributor to pump failure.
▪ B has shown she can be a major contributor.
▪ A major contributor to M.I.'s success is the flexibility of the courses, both in style and structure.
▪ Some major contributors not only got to meet the president, they got to bring their friends.
▪ Nothing in this article negates the evidence that poverty itself is a major contributor to ill-health.
▪ Westbrook has been a major party contributor, and he chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 1993-1994.
other
▪ As far as we know, no other Esquire contributors can make this claim.
▪ Water added to the oceans from melting of land-based ice is the other important contributor to the predicted increase in sea level.
political
▪ Recently, for example, Clinton held a news conference to explain what he had been doing vis-a-vis political contributors.
regular
▪ The Friends started a list of regular contributors and nowadays get donations from more than 55 percent of their subscribers.
▪ Among them were a score of painters who were regular contributors to the Salon exhibitions.
▪ The core of regular contributors are essential here, providing regular columns and continuity from issue to issue.
significant
▪ A significant contributor to this will be the Urengoy export pipeline.
▪ Technique errors were less significant contributors to measurement inaccuracies. 7.
▪ It is expected that these new launches will, in time, be significant contributors to the profit growth of this business.
▪ This was not pursued when it was realised that quite small countries like Ireland could become significant contributors.
single
▪ The Gallo family is the largest single lifetime contributor to Bob Dole, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
■ NOUN
campaign
▪ Westlands, and other Valley agribusiness interests, are politically powerful and large campaign contributors.
▪ Seventeen of those guests were campaign contributors, documents show.
▪ And in an electoral system dominated by money, that often means the short-term interests of their largest campaign contributors.
■ VERB
become
▪ She became a prolific contributor to magazines and newspapers, and began to have books and novels published.
▪ This was not pursued when it was realised that quite small countries like Ireland could become significant contributors.
▪ The other fallacy is that when people reach 65 they stop becoming contributors to the economy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The letter went to 800 of Durenberger's campaign contributors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Examiner contributor Bernard Gilbert is a writer and performer who acts carelessly in San Francisco.
▪ Ten federal researchers were listed as contributors, but seven of them quickly disavowed any connection with it.
▪ Thank you to all our contributors for being so prompt with all your articles.
▪ The most obvious contributor was indeed the organization.
▪ There is no invested fund, only promises of how much future contributors will be prepared to pay.
▪ Well over half of profit still came from overseas, and marine paint and powder coatings were narrowly the largest contributors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contributor

Contributor \Con*trib"u*tor\, n. One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper, magazine, or book.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
contributor

also contributer, mid-15c., from Anglo-French contributour, from Vulgar Latin *contributorem, agent noun from contribut-, stem of contribuere (see contribution). Related: Contributory (early 15c.).

Wiktionary
contributor

n. 1 A benefactor; someone who donates to charity or some cause. 2 A person who backs, supports or champions a cause, activity or institution. 3 A person (or thing) instrumental in the creation or growth of something. 4 A person who produces articles published in a newspaper, magazine, online publication, etc.

WordNet
contributor

  1. n. someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money [syn: subscriber]

  2. a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book

Usage examples of "contributor".

Upon reaching the plateau, I averted my eyes, in accordance with the advice of one of the more austere contributors to the Guide, from the Disneyesque grandeurs of the Palace and turned somewhat at random into the network of narrow streets which constitutes the old town of Monaco.

There may have been another contributor to this fund -Mr Harold Lindo of Jamaica, whose son, Squadron Leader Harold Lindo, a navigator on 103 Squadron, was killed on one of the Berlin raids.

This massive work, in four volumes, of 2,600 pages, had 254 contributors, seven associate editors, including Isaiah Berlin and Ernest Nagel, and seven contributing editors, among whom were E.

The pronounced Whiggism of that critique led to an open rupture with the Tory contributors.

If your esteemed oncle was a contributor to the Corsican, he was the wiliest one in England.

The group, called HABDI, includes Carlos Herrera, a former president of the Latin Builders Association and a heavy Democratic contributor.

There was no doubt, in the minds of all these editors and contributors, the teaching of a tradition that coalitions of this kind have been generally feeble, sometimes disastrous, and on occasions, even disgraceful.

At the same time the relations between the contributors and the management were to be much more, intimate than usual.

I had thought of a reception, maybe, that would include the lady contributors and artists, and the wives and daughters of the other contributors.

They reduced the number of illustrated articles, and they systematized the payment of contributors strictly according to the sales of each number, on their original plan of co-operation: they had got to paying rather lavishly for material without reference to the sales.

March said she was always glad to meet the contributors to the magazine, and asked him whether he knew Mr.

One of the largest contributors was DaimlerChrysler, which is part of the Coalition for Vehicle Choice, a trade group trying to stop an increase in fuel economy standards.

From every state in the Union and from many lands, the love offerings of the disciples of Christian Science came to help erect this beautiful structure, and more than 4,000 of these contributors came to Boston from the far-off Pacific coast and the Gulf states and all the territory that lies between, to view the new-built temple and to listen to the message sent them by the teacher they revere.

Instrumental in my getting this part right were the wonderful contributors to the bulletin board of the Best Friends Pet Sanctuary.

Big Names contribute to the fanzines on the same conditions as other contributors.