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Noncontributing

Noncontributing \Non`con*trib"u*ting\, Noncontributory \Non`con*trib"u*to*ry\, a. Not contributing.

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noncontributing

a. Not contributing; that does not contribute or does not involve contribution

Usage examples of "noncontributing".

He bit off his sentence, remembering that Bernard liked to be a noncontributing party to his prisoner's conversations.

No tribe wanted to have a noncontributing member, or one who was not implicitly tied to the tribe, so this was a reasonable limit.