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contribute verb [ kənˈtrɪbjuːt ]

• give (something, especially money) in order to help achieve or provide something.
• "taxpayers had contributed £141.8 million towards the cost of local services"
Similar: give, donate, give/make a donation of, put up, come up with, subscribe, hand out, grant, bestow, present, gift, accord, provide, supply, furnish, chip in, pitch in, fork out, dish out, shell out, cough up, stump up, kick in, ante up, pony up, impart, lend, add, confer,
Origin: mid 16th century: from Latin contribut- ‘brought together, added’, from the verb contribuere, from con- ‘with’ + tribuere ‘bestow’.


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