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noun
a gift or payment to a common fund or collection:the agency is mainly financed from voluntary contributions the part played by a person or thing in bringing about a result or helping something to advance:the major contribution of social scientists to the understanding of political life there was scarcely a branch of art to which he did not make a contribution a piece of writing submitted for publication in a journal, book, etc.: local historians are requesting contributions for a forthcoming book on the history of the community