Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Contributory; tributary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Contributory.
  • adjective rare Tributary; contributing.

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  • adjective contributory
  • adjective tributary; contributing

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Examples

  • I find it a basic evasion of a business cost, and a heavy contributary cause for Inflation.

    Economic Attribution Error, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • By abolishing official charity and substituting a non-contributary system of old age pensions, a general system of insurance by the State of all its members against unemployment and invalidism ...

    Becoming a Socialist Nation | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • And if now, in the inevitable reflux, the BNP can do some dirty but needful work contributary to breaking the citadels of the lunatic British nomenklatura, then more power to them.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I also think it may have been a contributary cause of his death aged only 54.

    Feeling Unwell Glyn Davies 2008

  • The root cause is still open to debate although I'm inclined to accept the view that the rise of our Industrial society is a significant contributary factor.

    Green Taxes 2006

  • Tacitus says that Augustus had a memoir, written in his own hand, which contained the revenues of the empire, the fleets and contributary kingdoms.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • To say that his policies and attitude have been a significant contributary factor however, is surely indisputable.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Garry 2006

  • The root cause is still open to debate although I'm inclined to accept the view that the rise of our Industrial society is a significant contributary factor.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • To say that his policies and attitude have been a significant contributary factor however, is surely indisputable.

    The Blair Effect Garry 2006

  • Alcohol was suspected to have played a contributary role in more than half of all accidents reported, Maharaj said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

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