Dictionary Definition
contribution
Noun
1 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]
2 a voluntary gift (as of money or service or
ideas) made to some worthwhile cause [syn: donation]
3 act of giving in common with others for a
common purpose especially to a charity [syn: donation]
4 an amount of money contributed; "he expected
his contribution to be repaid with interest"
5 a writing for publication especially one of a
collection of writings as an article or story
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
- An amount of money given toward something.
- The act of contributing.
Translations
something given or offered that adds to a larger
whole
- Croatian: doprinos, kontribucija
- Czech: příspěvek
- Dutch: bijdrage
- Finnish: myötävaikutus
- French: contribution
- German: Beitrag
- Hebrew: תרומה (truma)
- Romanian: contribuţie
- Slovene: prispevek
(finance) an amount of money given toward
something
- Croatian: doprinos, kontribucija
- Czech: příspěvek
- Dutch: bijdrage , financiële bijdrage , financiële steun
- Finnish: tuki, avustus
- French: contribution , contribution financière
- German: Beitrag , finanzieller Beitrag
- Hebrew: תרומה (truma) (an amount of money given for charity)
- Romanian: donaţie
the act of contributing
French
Etymology
From contributio.Noun
fr-noun fExtensive Definition
Contribution may refer to:
- Donation
- Sharing
- Payment
- A payment between defendants with joint and several liability to apportion liability
- Publication in a newspaper, magazine, etc.
- Transport of audio or video content by broadcasters prior to distribution (for example audio or video links between a sports venue or concert hall and the broadcaster's studios)
- Contribution margin in cost accounting and analysis
contribution in German: Abgabe
contribution in Simple English:
Contribution
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation, taxing, tithe, toll, tribute, ultimatum, voting, votive offering, vouchsafement, warning, withholding
tax