Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who contributes; one who gives or pays money or anything else of value to a common stock or fund; one who aids in effecting a common purpose; specifically, one who furnishes literary material to a journal or magazine, or other joint literary work.
- n. 2. One who pays tribute; a tributary.
Wiktionary
- n. A benefactor; someone who donates to charity or some cause.
- n. A person who backs, supports or champions a cause, activity or institution.
- n. A person instrumental in the creation or growth of something.
- n. A person who produces articles published in a newspaper, magazine, online publication, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, contributes one who writes articles for a newspaper, magazine, or book.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money
- n. a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book
Etymologies
- contribute + -or (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Another contributor is the vast pool of unskilled immigrants (Mexico being the largest source of them) that has flooded our labor market, displacing poor citizens and driving wages and benefits down.”
“Of all of the trivia shoved into the deep recesses of my brain, the greatest contributor is my father, James P. Fowler, Sr.”
“What would you say is the main contributor to your success?”
The Huffington Post: Peter Crawfurd: 3 Highly Successful Blogs and How They Got There
“The next biggest contributor is the California Business PAC, the group representing the members of the California Chamber of Commerce, including Hewlett Packard, General Electric, Enterprise Rent-a-car, Pfizer, and Charles Schwab.”
The Huffington Post: Ryan Van Lenning: Mapping the Money on California's Prop 25 and 26
“However, the single biggest contributor is Chevron.”
The Huffington Post: Ryan Van Lenning: Mapping the Money on California's Prop 25 and 26
“This has made Herbert Simon a main contributor in the field administrative (management) science.”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006
“The contributor is teenage pregnancy, and the single parent (basically young poeple starting families beyond their means) household.”
Libertarian Redistribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“If the contributor is taxed less than that rate (but still more than 25%, his working age rate) the contributor gets more consumption!”
Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The non-contributor gets to win if the tax rate faced by the contributor is 75% or more on his 401K.”
Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The next largest contributor is the Colorado headquartered national group, Focus on the Family.”
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
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collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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foxing, cocked, endpaper, scuffing, spine, impression, marginal, covers, browning, edition, printing, dust jacket and 44 more...
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abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Writer, Writer!
columnist, contributor, novelist, poet, wordsmith, stringer, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, correspondent, essayist, speechwriter and 99 more...
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able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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A Change of Plan
A list of words used in a story about a thirteen-year-old boy name Eduardo who bought an old bike from the money he earned weeding, hoeing, and working during spring vacation. Eduardo loved and pla...
gravel path, weeding, hoeing, hummed, preparations, journey, off-key, contributor
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